Bug#740998: closed by Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org> (Bug#740998: fixed in ndisc6 1.0.1-2)

[Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>]

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.

Dominic.