Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > Package: release-notes > Severity: normal > > NIS does not more use debconf for its initial installation. While existing > setups should smoothly upgrade to the new multi-package organization, > the recommended configuration way in bullseye is by following the nis-howto > document included in the `nis` meta-package for both clients and servers.
If NIS is expected to upgrade smoothly from v3 in buster to v4 in bullseye, what is there that needs to be mentioned in the release notes? Is this something NIS users need to be told about before their *next* upgrade, i.e. in the bookworm release notes? If so, what is it that they'll need to be told? The NIS howto doesn't seem to say anything at all about *upgrades* - it only deals with the scary things NIS admins are expected to do to /etc/passwd and so on in order to get NIS up and running in the first place on a fresh install. And sysadmins preparing to set up a new NIS server as a fresh bullseye install won't be reading *either* the buster-to-bullseye Release Notes *or* the docs included in the nis metapackage... (Shouldn't there be something, if only a copy of that howto, at "https://wiki.debian.org/NIS"?) -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package