A couple of rants about Launchpad#

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 06:28:23PM +0000, David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/3/5 Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>:
> > So that is the way things currently work in Ubuntu. I was wondering
> > about the cause for full fledged releases still loaded with rather
> > obvious bugs.
> 
> Will the Avahi bug in 9.04 get nailed? That's the one that makes
> Kubuntu such that Konqueror and ping can resolve DNS but Firefox and
> (critically) apt-get can't. This question is apposite because Fedora
> apparently went through the precise same problem six months ago.

You sure that's Avahi? Sounds awfully like this bug I fixed a couple of
weeks ago by pulling in a Fedora patch:

glibc (2.9-0ubuntu12) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/all/fedora-nss_dns-gethostbyname4-disable.diff: Patch
    from Fedora 2.9-3 to temporarily disable _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r,
    which caused problems for systems with broken IPv6 connectivity
    (LP: #313218, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459756).

 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>  Sat, 21 Feb 2009 07:40:16 +0000

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]