Bug#203001: RFA: hesiod -- Utilities for Project Athena's service name resolution protocol
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-26
Severity: normal
I request an adopter for the hesiod package.
The package description is:
Hesiod is a name service library that can provide general name service
for a variety of applications. It is derived from BIND, the Berkeley
Internet Name Daemon, and leverages the existing DNS infrastructure of a
network. It is used on a number of university networks, including MIT
and Iowa State University.
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If you will not be using this system on a network that already uses
Hesiod, you probably do not need this package.
The package is in generally good condition, is low maintenance and (as
suggested by the description above) has a niche userbase. I am just
completing an upload that fixes all outstanding non-wishlist bugs in the
package. Unfortunately, the remaining wishlist bug requires the
attention of someone who uses this package enough to care about
portability issues; since I haven't been a member of the package's
niche userbase for a couple years now, and upstream is effectively
comatose (the last upstream release was in 1997), it's time to pass this
package on.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: alpha
Kernel: Linux quetzlcoatl 2.4.19-xfs #1 Sun Jan 12 22:23:19 CST 2003 alpha
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
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