John Hasler wrote:
I installed the Avahi daemon many, many moons ago. I couldn't tell you how long I had that running, but I uninstalled it a a while back as I found I didn't need it. The libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 package is still installed as if I remove it apt wants to remove several kde packages at the same time. Still, that software package has been there for a long time. Why hasn't this problem shown up before this last update? I normally update my workstation at least once a week so I find it odd that I've never experienced this before.Joey Hess writes:Because you had libnss-mdns installed so apparently want to use it, and the change is not intended to make mdns be used for anything except for .local address resolution.kdnssd, education-standalone, libavahi-compat-libdnssd1, and avahi-daemon depend on libnss-mdns. Did you (Freddy, not Joey) install any of those? BTW kdnssd and education-standalone also depend on zeroconf, which may also give you grief.