base-files: provided /etc/host.conf file shouldn't contain an "order bind, hosts" line (fwd)

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

Hi.

In this report I'm asked to drop the "order" line from host.conf.

I assume no versioned dependency on glibc is needed for this, as it seems
such line has been ignored for a looong time (probably since glibc 2.0),
but I better make sure that's the case by asking here.

Thanks.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:07:02 +0100
Subject: base-files: provided /etc/host.conf file shouldn't contain an
    "order bind, hosts" line

Package: base-files
Version: 3.1.10
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Hi,

The "order" line of /etc/host.conf doesn't work any more (see
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2389) and is replaced
by the "hosts:" line of /etc/nsswitch.conf. I requested documentation
removal from the manpage in bug #270368. For even less confusion, please
also apply the following patch to base-files, since the "order" line
doesn't make sense any more.

--- host.conf.orig	2006-02-23 15:05:56.000000000 +0100
+++ host.conf	2006-02-23 15:06:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-order hosts,bind
 multi on


Regards,
Samuel

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