Re: Packages up for adoption
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 01:15:06PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> I'm giving the following packages up for adoption. They are all fairly
> small, and should be good for new maitnainers, yet challenging enough for
> some old roughies. Some of them use a form of the DBS source system (a
> smallish stripped down version, easier to use). Let me know if you have
> any questions about them. All I ask is that:
>
> a) Packages marked as such be taken by the same maintainer. Some of these
> are related.
> b) Do not do anything till I say you can. I'm very particular about my
> packages, and there is a chance that I will say no to you taking the
> package (nothing personal, I'm just that way).
> c) Do not make drastic changes to them. I use these packages, so if you
> break my system, I'll let you know.
>
> Right now I have too many other things to contend with to be able to mess
> with these smaller packages (shadow, openldap2, glibc, pam and all of sparc).
>
> Here goes:
>
> ---------------------------
> libnss-ldap and libpam-ldap
>
> These two must be taken together. The source is from the same upstream,
> and they pretty much are used in conjunction with each other (although
> they are seperate tarballs, and seperate functionality). If you do not
> know what these are used for, do not think about taking them. Messing them
> up will cause login failures to machines using them (like mine). They are
> small, and the upstream is very open to patches and bug reports.
>
> --------
> tcl-ldap
>
> This is a tcl module compiled against libopenldap and provides a tcl
> interface to the LDAP protocol.
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> libapache-mod-auth-pam and libauthen-pam-perl
>
> These to not have to be taken together, but it would be nice since they
> both deal with PAM. Both are fairly small. The apache module allows
> .htaccess etc. to use PAM modules for authenticating. The PAM perl module
> compiles against libpam to give a perl interface to PAM.
>
> ---
> sdf
>
> This is a weird text formatting language that outputs PS, HTML, TXT etc. I
> only packaged it because openldap-guide requires it in order to generate
> it's documents. No one uses it, there are no bug reports that I know of
> against (maybe 1 or 2).
>
> -------------------
> libconvert-ber-perl
>
> A binary encoding module used primarily by libnet-ldap-perl. Very simple
> package, good for beginners.
>
>
> That's all for now.
>
> --
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If I can I'd like to adopt all these packages, let me know if it's possible.
Regards,
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