Re: nsswitch.conf

2007-02-06 Thread Loïc Minier
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007, Brian May wrote: > Loïc> #406198 is about reverting the changes it does to > Loïc> nsswitch.conf on removal, not about not updating > Loïc> nsswitch.conf, but yes, libnss-mdns edits the conffile of > Loïc> another package. > Packages shouldn't be editing conff

Re: nsswitch.conf

2007-02-05 Thread Brian May
> "Loïc" == Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Loïc> #406198 is about reverting the changes it does to Loïc> nsswitch.conf on removal, not about not updating Loïc> nsswitch.conf, but yes, libnss-mdns edits the conffile of Loïc> another package. Packages shouldn't be edit

Re: nsswitch.conf

2007-02-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, a default of enabled for something that is going to be pulled > in in most systems If mDNS is going to be pulled in on most systems, that is itself a potential problem. What's pulling it in? If it's a desktop task or the like, t

Re: nsswitch.conf

2007-02-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 05 Feb 2007, Loïc Minier wrote: > Yes, but it would need to be of low priority and the default would need > to be to add the entries in nsswitch.conf. I think it would be more I think I'd rather have it medium or high, with a default to *disabled*. Yes, the normal would be "Low", but I

Re: nsswitch.conf

2007-02-05 Thread Loïc Minier
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007, Russell Coker wrote: > >  It is one way of seeing it, however you've got to see it from the other > >  way as well: how is it possible to integrate a new type of lookup > >  (mDNS) on desktop machines which want RendezVous / UPnP / mDNS to work? > It could ask via Debconf. Y

Re: nsswitch.conf

2007-02-05 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 04 February 2007 19:48, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >  It is one way of seeing it, however you've got to see it from the other >  way as well: how is it possible to integrate a new type of lookup >  (mDNS) on desktop machines which want RendezVous / UPnP / mDNS to work? It cou

Re: nsswitch.conf

2007-02-04 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, On Sun, Feb 04, 2007, Brian May wrote: > Is it still the case that packages should not update > /etc/nsswitch.conf as documented in bug #78110? I don't think #78110 states that packages should not update /etc/nsswitch.conf and #78110 has its youngest message in the previous century