Bug#859475: jessie-pu: package ndisc6/1.0.1-1+deb8u1

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

Control: tags -1 + pending

On Sun, 2017-04-30 at 00:05 +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 05:45:17PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> 
> Hi Adam,
> 
> > On Tue, 2017-04-04 at 00:40 +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> > > the package rdnssd (from src:ndisc6) provides a daemon that listens to IPv6 RA
> > > messages containing RDNSS (recursive DNS servers) information, and adds this
> > > information to /etc/resolv.conf. It is automatically installed by d-i if this
> > > information is found during installation.
> > > 
> > > If resolvconf is installed managing and merging of /etc/resolv.conf is handed
> > > over to it. However, if it is not installed the version in Jessie simply
> > > overwrites /etc/resolv.conf, which drops all search list information as well as
> > > IPv4 nameservers. This often leads to severe breakage of the installed system.
> > > This is tracked in Bug#767071
> > > 
> > > The proposed fix for Jessie will adjust the merge script to be the same as in
> > > current upstream and Stretch.
> > 
> > Please go ahead, bearing in mind that the window for the 8.8 point
> > release closes during the weekend.
> 
> Thanks, uploaded and accepted.

Flagged for acceptance into p-u.

Regards,

Adam