Dear Michael, Please re-open the bug. Even as you state that I "might have" deleted it . Just to make sure that it wasn't the case, I reinstalled the package to see what happens -
and as can be seen ─[$] sudo aptitude reinstall avahi-daemon libavahi-core7 [12:03:49] The following packages will be REINSTALLED: avahi-daemon libavahi-core7 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 81 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/202 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. D000001: ensure_diversions: new, (re)loading D000001: ensure_statoverrides: new, (re)loading (Reading database ... 1156657 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../0-avahi-daemon_0.6.32-1_amd64.deb ... D000001: process_archive oldversionstatus=installed D000001: ensure_diversions: same, skipping Unpacking avahi-daemon (0.6.32-1) over (0.6.32-1) ... D000001: ensure_diversions: same, skipping D000001: process_archive updating info directory D000001: generating infodb hashfile Preparing to unpack .../1-libavahi-core7_0.6.32-1_amd64.deb ... D000001: process_archive oldversionstatus=installed Unpacking libavahi-core7:amd64 (0.6.32-1) over (0.6.32-1) ... D000001: process_archive updating info directory D000001: generating infodb hashfile D000001: cmpversions a='0:2016.03.30' b='0:2016.05.24' r=-2 D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.10' b='0:1.16' r=2 D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.10' b='0:1.16' r=2 D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.10' b='0:1.16' r=2 D000001: ensure_diversions: new, (re)loading D000001: process queue pkg avahi-daemon:amd64 queue.len 5 progress 1, try 1 D000001: process queue pkg libc-bin:amd64 queue.len 5 progress 2, try 1 Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-5) ... D000001: ensure_diversions: same, skipping D000001: process queue pkg systemd:amd64 queue.len 4 progress 1, try 1 Processing triggers for systemd (231-9) ... D000001: ensure_diversions: same, skipping D000001: process queue pkg man-db:amd64 queue.len 3 progress 1, try 1 Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... D000001: ensure_diversions: same, skipping D000001: process queue pkg dbus:amd64 queue.len 2 progress 1, try 1 Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.12-1) ... D000001: ensure_diversions: same, skipping D000001: process queue pkg libavahi-core7:amd64 queue.len 1 progress 1, try 1 Setting up libavahi-core7:amd64 (0.6.32-1) ... D000001: deferred_configure updating conffiles D000001: process queue pkg avahi-daemon:amd64 queue.len 0 progress 1, try 1 Setting up avahi-daemon (0.6.32-1) ... D000001: deferred_configure updating conffiles D000001: ensure_diversions: same, skipping Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-5) ... D000001: ensure_diversions: same, skipping D000001: cmpversions a='0:2016.03.30' b='0:2016.05.24' r=-2 D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.10' b='0:1.16' r=2 D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.10' b='0:1.16' r=2 D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.10' b='0:1.16' r=2 adequate found packaging bugs ----------------------------- avahi-daemon: broken-symlink /etc/network/if-post-down.d/avahi-daemon -> ../if-up.d/avahi-daemon An apt-file search reveals that apart from apparmor the only avahi-daemon files are those which it installs. I cannot purge it as it is one of the recommends of task-desktop and other packages to do it cleanly just to clear the state . [$] sudo aptitude purge avahi-daemon [12:11:48] The following packages will be REMOVED: avahi-daemon{p} libavahi-core7{u} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 81 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 557 kB will be freed. The following packages have unmet dependencies: libapache2-mod-dnssd : Depends: avahi-daemon (>= 0.6.5) but it is not going to be installed pulseaudio-module-zeroconf : Depends: avahi-daemon but it is not going to be installed telepathy-salut : Depends: avahi-daemon but it is not going to be installed libnss-mdns : Depends: avahi-daemon (>= 0.6.16-1) but it is not going to be installed gnome : Depends: avahi-daemon but it is not going to be installed The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: 1) gnome [1:3.20+2 (now, testing, unstable)] 2) gnome-core [1:3.20+2 (now, testing, unstable)] 3) gnome-user-share [3.18.3-1 (now, testing, unstable)] 4) libapache2-mod-dnssd [0.6-3.1 (now, testing, unstable)] 5) libnss-mdns [0.10-7 (now, testing, unstable)] 6) mate-user-share [1.16.0-1 (now, testing, unstable)] 7) paprefs [0.9.10-2 (now, testing, unstable)] 8) pulseaudio-module-zeroconf [9.0-4 (now, testing, unstable)] 9) telepathy-salut [0.8.1-5+b1 (now, testing, unstable)] Leave the following dependencies unresolved: 10) libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 recommends libnss-mdns 11) cinnamon-desktop-environment recommends gnome-user-share 12) cups recommends avahi-daemon 13) cups-core-drivers recommends avahi-daemon 14) cups-daemon recommends avahi-daemon (>= 0.6.31-3~) 15) cups-browsed recommends avahi-daemon (>= 0.6.31-3~) 16) empathy recommends telepathy-salut 17) geoclue-2.0 recommends avahi-daemon 18) gnome-control-center recommends gnome-user-share 19) mate-desktop-environment-extras recommends mate-user-share (>= 1.16.0) 20) rhythmbox recommends avahi-daemon 21) task-desktop recommends avahi-daemon 22) task-desktop recommends libnss-mdns Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies. Abort. Look forward as to how to move forward on the situation. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8