Bug 7553

Summary: avahi should be kept up to date with bugfixes
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Cristian Iorga <cristian.iorga>
Component: connectivityAssignee: Maxin B. John (inactive) <maxin.baby.john>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Lucian Musat <georgex.l.musat>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Medium+ CC: alexandru.c.georgescu, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, ross.burton
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 2.1 M3   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Cristian Iorga 2015-03-31 16:08:17 UTC 
avahi package, as used by oe-core is available via www.avahi.org website.
However, this package is getting older and bug-prone as time passes by.
The latest release is more than 2 years old.

Some avahi bugfixes have been added/implemented to a new repository at:
https://github.com/lathiat/avahi

YP/poky/oe-core should switch to that for the next release.
Comment 1 Ross Burton 2015-04-01 05:57:34 UTC 
Trent has now merged every patch we had apart from one touching the init scripts, and he'll be merging the full set of init script updates from Debian shortly (the remaining patch is taken from Debian).

A release is due soon, once all the bitrot is fixed.
Comment 2 Ross Burton 2016-01-21 16:21:17 UTC 
Randomly reassigning to Maxin.

We need to talk to Trent and see if he's still interested in maintaining avahi in the future, if he'll make a tarball, and so on.  If the github repo is dead already then switching to it is less clear-cut.
Comment 3 Maxin B. John (inactive) 2016-02-02 09:59:15 UTC 
Raised a pull request in github to check if the project is alive..
https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/pull/48
Comment 4 Maxin B. John (inactive) 2016-02-10 10:04:19 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> Raised a pull request in github to check if the project is alive..
> https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/pull/48

There is no reply for the mail sent to Trent - "lathiat@bur.st" and status of pull request remain open. It will be great if someone could share Trent's latest mail id (if the above one isn't valid anymore).
Comment 5 Ross Burton 2016-02-10 10:14:34 UTC 
That should be his current email...
Comment 6 Ross Burton 2016-02-10 10:37:27 UTC 
I found him on IRC (#avahi on freenode, note that he's australian) and pestered him:

"i plan to drop the rc from .32 and drop it as is (seems fine) and im working on various new patches for next release atm"

A tarball should be coming soon.
Comment 7 Maxin B. John (inactive) 2016-02-10 10:57:16 UTC 
(In reply to comment #6)
> I found him on IRC (#avahi on freenode, note that he's australian) and
> pestered him:
> 
> "i plan to drop the rc from .32 and drop it as is (seems fine) and im
> working on various new patches for next release atm"
> 
> A tarball should be coming soon.

Thanks, That is encouraging. I will start working on that rc release then.
Comment 8 Maxin B. John (inactive) 2016-02-12 13:46:17 UTC 
Current status: Waiting for the 0.6.32 release tarball in github.
Comment 9 Ross Burton 2016-02-16 10:08:06 UTC 
Trent has released 0.6.32: https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/releases/tag/v0.6.32
Comment 10 Maxin B. John (inactive) 2016-02-17 15:02:58 UTC 
patch sent to oe-core Mailing list:
http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2016-February/117654.html