Bug#269203: RFA: autofs -- A kernel-based automounter for Linux
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I request an adopter for the autofs package.
I will do so myself around 20. of October, though that will be too late
for sarge, and I have no time to work further on it before then.
Further I have no clue on Hesiod, LDAP and NIS+, if you use one of
these and want to help you're welcome. You don't need to be a registered
Debian developer.
To: Arthur Korn <arthur@korn.ch>
From: Daniel Lutz <danlutz@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [autofs] still actively maintained
> I'd like to see a current and fixed up version of autofs (ie
> 4.*) in sarge. Do you want to keep the package? Are you going
> to do it yourself or can I NMU it?
>
> I'm willing to adopt it if that's OK with you.
That would be OK. Unfortunately, I've been too busy for a long
time now, more busy than I thought first. The problem is that
it's not a simple task to update to a newer version of autofs,
since the new package should be compatible as much as possible to
the existing package. The main problem is the init script, which
has become very Debian specific.
Note that Ian Kent, the upstream author of autofs, has already
merged some of the debian/patches into the upstream code.
-Daniel
The package description is:
Autofs controls the operation of the automount daemons. The
automount daemons automatically mount filesystems when they
are used and unmount them after a period of inactivity. This
is done based on a set of pre-configured maps.
.
The kernel automounter implements an almost complete SunOS style
automounter under Linux. The automounter is supported by Linux
kernels 2.0.31 and higher. Automounter support must be activated
while compiling the kernel.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (50, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=de_CH, LC_CTYPE=de_CH
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