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Bug#699114: O: libnss-ldap -- NSS module for using LDAP as a naming



Hi Arthur, Barry, Moritz,

* Arthur de Jong <adejong@debian.org> [200707 20:02]:
> On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 19:25 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > The current maintainer of libnss-ldap, Richard A Nelson (Rick)
> > <cowboy@debian.org, is apparently not active anymore. Therefore, I
> > orphan this package now.
> 
> If anyone is willing to be maintainer of the libnss-ldap and libpam-ldap
> packages I'm willing to help getting the packages into shape.

[..]

> I may also point people to libnss-ldapd and libpam-ldapd as alternatives
> (depending on whether anyone else is willing to do any work on this).

[..]

> The alternative is to remove the packages (see #717917 and #717918)
> which, while being good for the popularity of my packages ;), would
> perhaps not be the most ideal situation.

Do any of you think the situation has changed since 2013?

Personally I would not want to have once popular NSS and PAM
libraries in the next stable release, if upstream has vanished a long
time ago.

Maybe its time to reopen 717917 and 717918?

Chris


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