Bug#827095: base-files and libc-bin install different /etc/nsswitch.conf files

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Sun, 12 Jun 2016, Sven Joachim wrote:

> Package: base-files,libc-bin
> 
> Both base-files and libc-bin install the /etc/nsswitch.conf file.
> Although it has been agreed in #673271 that libc-bin should take over
> responsibility for it, base-files still installs and updates it.
> Moreover, in response for #699090 base-files has updated its copy, and
> now it differs from libc-bin's version:
> 
> ,----
> |  diff -u /usr/share/base-files/nsswitch.conf /usr/share/libc-bin/nsswitch.conf
> | --- /usr/share/base-files/nsswitch.conf 2014-05-04 14:38:37.000000000 +0200
> | +++ /usr/share/libc-bin/nsswitch.conf   2016-03-21 00:45:12.000000000 +0100
> | @@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
> |  passwd:         compat
> |  group:          compat
> |  shadow:         compat
> | -gshadow:        files
> |  
> |  hosts:          files dns
> |  networks:       file
> `----
> 
> The net effect is apparently that the content of /etc/nsswitch.conf in
> fresh installations depends on whether libc-bin or base-files is
> configured first, which is bad.  Could you please work out who should be
> responsible for that file?

Thanks a lot for the report. You are absolutely right. Yes, the file
should not be in both places, but on the other hand, we might better
have them in sync before I remove it from base-files.

I see that the file has moved to libc-bin, but there was some simple
code in postinst to update to the current default. I'm going to see
if I can create a simple patch for libc-bin to do the same.

Thanks.