Your message dated Tue, 22 Oct 2013 18:13:16 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#717917: RM: libnss-ldap -- RoQA; orphaned, RC buggy, alternatives exist has caused the Debian Bug report #717917, regarding RM: libnss-ldap -- RoQA; orphaned, RC buggy, alternatives exist to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hello, Please see the following reasons for the removal request: * Orphaned. * RC buggy. * Alternatives exist (libnss-ldapd, sssd). Thank you, -- Barry deFreese Sometimes helper, sometimes hinderer to: Debian Games, QA, GNU/Hurd
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--- Begin Message ---On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 06:11:05PM +0200, Arthur de Jong wrote: > On Sat, 2013-07-27 at 09:30 -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: > > I have been working on these for a couple of weeks. I even spent the > > time updating to the latest upstreams and fixing up the packaging. > > Do you have this in a VCS somewhere? I'd be happy to contribute. > > > However, the consensus seems to be to just get rid of them since no > > one seems to care for them. Libnss-ldap has been broken for at least > > 2 releases. > > I'm not convinced the packages are so broken they're unusable for most > users. > > Another situation in which libpam-ldap is still useful: with > nss-pam-ldapd the LDAP servers configured are the same for NSS and PAM > while pam_ldap can also be provided with a config parameter that would > allow LDAP authentication against a different LDAP server per > authentication service. > > > I am also concerned about the high popcon, however, so far I have been > > unsuccessful in actually finding a user that actually uses it that > > could do any real testing for me.. I am not particularly familiar > > with ldap myself. > > As I'm the maintainer of nss-pam-ldapd I can test the packages in my > test environment but I don't use it anywhere in production. Perhaps > someone from Ubuntu is also interested in helping out. Since there was a recent QA upload by Barry and Arthur, I'm closing this bug. Cheers, Moritz
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