[MIR] resolvconf

Bug #921135 reported by Stéphane Graber
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resolvconf (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

As described in https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-p-dns-resolving we'd like Precise to use a common way of dealing with /etc/resolv.conf

The chosen solution was resolvconf which was heavily improved and cleaned up by Thomas Hood and Steve Langasek so that I've been using it on multiple systems for a few weeks without seeing any issue.

The package itself is basically a bunch of hooks for various piece of software like isc-dhcp-client, ifupdown, ppp, ... to have them all write to /run/resolvconf/interface and then ask resolvconf to generate the updated /etc/resolv.conf
For our desktop installations, Network Manager knows how to deal with resolvconf and properly writes into /run/resolvconf and calls resolvconf without requiring any additional hook.

Once promoted, the package will be added as a dependency to the ubuntu-minimal seed. Users can easily turn it off by making /etc/resolv.conf a file again (the maintainer scripts will turn it into a symlink at install time).

Now as for the usual questions:
Build-Deps: only debhelper
Dependencies: all in main and AFAICS already all installed by default
Security: No issue that I could find, I did a quick check of the file permissions and everything looks good
Ubuntu Bugs: None on Launchpad, all of the previous bugs were either closed by the new version or re-assigned to other packages.
Debian Bugs: Only one bug which is about a lintian override, all other entries are wishlist items.
Maintenance: I'll add this package to my list of packages to monitor/merge/fix for the Ubuntu Foundations team

Revision history for this message
Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

this looks fine.

Changed in resolvconf (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

2012-01-26 16:41:37 INFO Override Component to: 'main'
2012-01-26 16:41:37 INFO 'resolvconf - 1.63ubuntu3/universe/net' source overridden
2012-01-26 16:41:38 INFO 'resolvconf-1.63ubuntu3/universe/net/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in precise/amd64
2012-01-26 16:41:38 INFO 'resolvconf-1.63ubuntu3/universe/net/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in precise/armel
2012-01-26 16:41:38 INFO 'resolvconf-1.63ubuntu3/universe/net/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in precise/armhf
2012-01-26 16:41:38 INFO 'resolvconf-1.63ubuntu3/universe/net/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in precise/i386
2012-01-26 16:41:38 INFO 'resolvconf-1.63ubuntu3/universe/net/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in precise/powerpc
Confirm this transaction? [yes, no] yes
2012-01-26 16:41:43 INFO Transaction committed.

Changed in resolvconf (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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