On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 07:06:38PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > Do the cloud images use avahi at all? Assuming I'm looking at the right > manifest: > > https://cdimage.debian.org/images/cloud/trixie/daily/20250324-2061/debian-13-generic-amd64-daily-20250324-2061.json
No, in fact most cloud environments don't support multicast networking at all, so disabling it is entirely safe. > it seems not, so how about this: I'll take a personal risk and we can > try once more with the pkg conflict. I'll reinstate the package, with > an added "Conflicts: avahi-daemon" so that users have to choose one or > the other, and avahi is the default so it always wins unless someone > has very specific and customized use cases like yours. That works for me. > If everything goes fine, then all good. If instead the TC escalates > again to DAM, then I'll remove the package again, and work to find an > alternative that you can use with networkd in the cloud images, and try > and find time to implement it. > > How does this sound? Well, we obviously would prefer to find a solution that doesn't involve removing networkd altogether, should it come to that, but I'd hope we don't get to that point. noah
