Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the nis package.
The package description is: This package provides tools for setting up and maintaining a NIS domain. NIS, originally known as Yellow Pages (YP), is mostly used to let several machines in a network share the same account information, such as the password file. This package provides tools for setting up and maintaining a NIS domain. NIS, originally known as Yellow Pages (YP), is mostly used to let several machines in a network share the same account information, such as the password file. Note that the package really should be split into multiple source packages but there's licensing problems which will cause problems getting through new.