reassign 842634 schroot retitle 842634 schroot: fiddles with localhost entries in /etc/hosts creating duplicates severity 842634 important than
This could be a misconfiguration, yes, but not deliberately chosen by the user, and it causes FTBFS bugs in other packages, so I don't think "minor" is appropriate here. Reassigning to schroot, which is the program creating duplicate entries. Dear schroot maintainers, I'll summarize the bug: On some machines, schroot mangles /etc/hosts as follows: This is the original /etc/hosts from the host, which is mainly derived from the one created by debian-installer: --------------------------------------------------------- 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.101 myhostname # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters --------------------------------------------------------- And this is the /etc/hosts file after entering a chroot with the schroot command: --------------------------------------------------------- 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.101 myhostname 127.0.0.1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback --------------------------------------------------------- The duplicate 127.0.0.1 entry makes some packages to FTBFS (for example, rustc, the package from which this is being reassigned). Please make schroot not to fiddle with /etc/hosts "more than required". In particular, it should not convert a /etc/hosts file that allows rustc to be built without errors into another one which does not allow building rustc. For example, dropping ff02::1 and ff02::2 might be ok, but converting ::1 into 127.0.0.1 is not. Thanks.
