On Sun, 2015-10-11 at 16:50 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 01:36:05AM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > > ndisc6 (1.0.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium > > . > > * QA upload. > > * Set maintainer to the Debian QA Group (see #713004). > > * Add conflicts between rdnssd and network-manager (closes: #740998). > > This bug just hit me in Debian stable (as it happens, it appeared to > be a particularly severe form where /etc/resolv.conf was wiped out > altogether; perhaps some sort of race condition?) > > I'm not sure why rdnssd was installed at all. I can't see any mention > of it in debian-installer, and not a single package Depends or Recommends > it. Morever it was installed without resolvconf (which I suspect would > have mitigated this issue), despite it recommending resolvconf, and no > change to the default of installing recommends having taken place. > > Release team; would you consider a QA upload of this package targetted > at stable, fixing this bug in the same way that Michael fixed it in > unstable - this will hopefully stop others having the experience of > having networking break on a freshly installed Debian system every 20 > minutes or so.
This was previously discussed in #778492, where there was some concern from the installer side as to possible side effects of the change. CCing -boot to see what current thoughts are. Regards, Adam
