mdz tested the program from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477211 and apparently it works fine without libnss-mdns installed. Matthias, does that change the situation here? Is this due to a mismatch between system nsswitch.conf and the available non-default-bit packages in a biarch environment, rather than being something we need to worry about in the normal case?
-- Installing openjdk-6-jre-headless pulls in dbus/avahi https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/261847 You received this bug notification because you are a member of OpenJDK, which is subscribed to openjdk-6 in ubuntu. Status in “openjdk-6” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in openjdk-6 in Ubuntu Intrepid: Confirmed Bug description: On a current intrepid setup, installing openjdk-6-jre-headless pulls in several packages that might not be suitable for a server setup : avahi-daemon, dbus, consolekit, dbus-x11... They are pulled in through the libnss-mdns Recommends, as well as 24 other packages. Complete list follows: avahi-daemon libavahi-common3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-core5 libdaemon0 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 dbus consolekit libck-connector0 libdbus-glib-1-2 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libpam-ck-connector dbus-x11 bind9-host libbind9-40 libcap2 libdns43 libisc44 libisccfg40 libisccc40 liblwres40 libxml2 xml-core sgml-base perl perl-modules As we want to promote usage of Java-based software on Ubuntu server, we might need a basic openjdk-6-jre-headless package that can be used as a dependency for a Java server package without pulling in too many packages. I propose to downgrade the libnss-mdns recommend to a suggest (for openjdk-6-jre-headless), resulting in going from 37 dependencies for that runtime on a bare install to a more healthy 9. According to the changelog, this Recommend was added for 6b09-1~pre1, but I am not sure it qualifies for something you want to find on all but specific setups ? Proposed patch follows. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openjdk Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openjdk More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
