[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1017488: nss-mdns: libnss-mdns should recommend, not depend on, avahi-daemon

[Steve Langasek]

Package: nss-mdns
Version: 0.15.1-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu kinetic ubuntu-patch

Dear maintainers,

In Ubuntu, we have patched nss-mdns to demote the dependency on avahi-daemon
to a Recommends.  The rationale for this is that avahi-daemon is typically
unhelpful to have running inside containers, but it is helpful to be able to
have libnss-mdns in containers preferably with the avahi-daemon socket
bind-mounted from the host system.

Please consider including this patch in Debian.
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diff -Nru nss-mdns-0.15.1/debian/control nss-mdns-0.15.1/debian/control
--- nss-mdns-0.15.1/debian/control	2022-08-15 09:44:02.000000000 -0700
+++ nss-mdns-0.15.1/debian/control	2022-08-16 14:56:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -21,10 +21,11 @@
 Pre-Depends:
  ${misc:Pre-Depends},
 Depends:
- avahi-daemon (>= 0.6.16-1),
  base-files (>= 3.1.10),
  ${misc:Depends},
  ${shlibs:Depends},
+Recommends:
+ avahi-daemon (>= 0.6.16-1),
 Suggests:
  avahi-autoipd | zeroconf,
 Architecture: any