This issue has been resolved upstream more than two years ago, but resurfaced with 0.9.74-1 when private-etc was enabled, which (per documentation) copies over some of /etc at startup, leading to the very same bug that changes to resolv.conf are not propagated.
- Bug#1010569: private-etc now responsible for failing resol... chrysn
- Bug#1010569: private-etc now responsible for failing ... Vincent Lefevre