On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 05:45:17PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:

Hi Adam,

> On Tue, 2017-04-04 at 00:40 +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> > the package rdnssd (from src:ndisc6) provides a daemon that listens to IPv6 
> > RA
> > messages containing RDNSS (recursive DNS servers) information, and adds this
> > information to /etc/resolv.conf. It is automatically installed by d-i if 
> > this
> > information is found during installation.
> > 
> > If resolvconf is installed managing and merging of /etc/resolv.conf is 
> > handed
> > over to it. However, if it is not installed the version in Jessie simply
> > overwrites /etc/resolv.conf, which drops all search list information as 
> > well as
> > IPv4 nameservers. This often leads to severe breakage of the installed 
> > system.
> > This is tracked in Bug#767071
> > 
> > The proposed fix for Jessie will adjust the merge script to be the same as 
> > in
> > current upstream and Stretch.
> 
> Please go ahead, bearing in mind that the window for the 8.8 point
> release closes during the weekend.

Thanks, uploaded and accepted.

Regards,
Bernhard

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