Bug#1068311: tcp-wrappers: Can anything be done to avoid the libnsl dependency?

2024-04-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 02:55:08PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 03, Colin Watson wrote: > > I wondered if anything could be done to avoid this or refactor it > > somehow? > Sure: I think that it makes sense to just disable NETGROUP (which is > the conditional for yp_get_default_domain),

Bug#1068311: tcp-wrappers: Can anything be done to avoid the libnsl dependency?

2024-04-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 03, Colin Watson wrote: > I wondered if anything could be done to avoid this or refactor it > somehow? Sure: I think that it makes sense to just disable NETGROUP (which is the conditional for yp_get_default_domain), because I do not think that anybody in 2024 still uses NIS and if they

Bug#1068311: tcp-wrappers: Can anything be done to avoid the libnsl dependency?

2024-04-03 Thread Colin Watson
Source: tcp-wrappers Version: 7.6.q-32 Severity: wishlist The main reason why libwrap is an issue in https://lists.debian.org/debian-ssh/2024/04/msg4.html is that it links to libnsl, which links to libtirpc, which links to libgssapi_krb5. That ends up being quite a heavyweight dependency