Bug#604854: Please build Berkeley DB NSS modules

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 09:39:46PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Package: eglibc
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Currently Debian provides a separate source package libnss-db, which
> includes an old, outdated copy of the Berkely DB NSS modules, which
> are actually included in glibc/eglibc.

While the source is still there, all the makefiles and versioning
support has been removed back in 2002. Not changes have been done since
then.

> Please build the NSS modules from the eglibc source package, so that
> it replaces libnss-db.
> 

I am not sure it is really a good idea. While the libnss-db looks
outdated, the version in eglibc simply looks obsolete.

Aurelien

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