A couple of rants about Launchpad#

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 02:27:32PM +0000, David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/3/5 Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>:
> > 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).
> 
> 
> Oooooh, could be! I was chatting to someone about this bug (why I was
> still using 8.10 instead of 9.04, which otherwise appears quite usable
> - as it should two months out) and he said it was avahi. So is it
> fixed in current Kubuntu (not just Ubuntu) 9.04? I might give it
> another go :-D

It'd be quite difficult to fix a glibc bug only in Ubuntu and not
Kubuntu, I think :-), so yes. With a few exceptions, generally anything
that's below the level of the desktop reaches both at around the same
time.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]