[Printing-architecture] OP Minutes (9 January)

[Zdenek Dohnal]

Hi everyone,

On 1/14/19 12:02 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> On 14/01/2019 01:52, Michael Sweet wrote:
>> Ira,
>>
>> A bug was filed against CUPS last month requesting that we start
>> supporting systemd's new mDNS resolver (which apparently is replacing
>> the use of Avahi in systemd?!?):
>>
>> https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5452
>>
>> I pushed back since there does not appear to be a way to browse
>> DNS-SD SRV records and there is no interface for registering services
>> outside of systemd configuration files.  But that might be a future
>> alternative to Avahi should they extend the current interfaces to
>> support it...
>>
>
> The best would probably be here to post feature requests on this
> project so that they know what an mDNS/DNS-SD stack needs to be
> feature-complete and replace the unmaintained Avahi.

I talked about both issues with Michal Sekletar, which is systemd and
avahi maintainer for RHEL and the situation is following:

1) systemd-resolved as successor of nss-mdns module:

    As far as Michal knows, systemd-resolved is not currently meant as
successor of nss-mdns module + avahi since it does not support service
browsing as Mike found out. If it will in the future, he does not know
right now (probably how avahi situation will turn up...).

2) Avahi upstream maintenance

   Michal and several other people tried to convince Trent to pass
ownership to someone else (Michal knew about two people, who would like
to take Avahi project at that time) about two years ago, because Trent
seemed to do not have time for the project. But Trent did not want to
give away the upstream project. Currently Michal fixes Avahi issues
downstream in Fedora/RHEL.

Is there a way how to solve the situation? Cloning the project is not
optimal, because Trent's github repo is still the first obvious choice
when you google 'avahi github'.

>
>    Till
>
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-- 
Zdenek Dohnal
Associate Software Engineer
Red Hat Czech - Brno TPB-C


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