Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pk...@debian.org
* Package name : nsncd Version : 1.4.1 (plus patches[1]) * URL : https://github.com/twosigma/nsncd * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Rust Description : Name service non-caching daemon nsncd implements the NSCD (name-service caching daemon) protocol to provide out-of-process NSS lookups but does not implement caching. It is designed to provide high-performance NSS lookups for programs that are not using the system libc, while providing semantics as if NSCD were not being used. This is useful in environments in which you are mixing binaries from several sources. One such environment is Nix, where binaries will be linked to a (hermetic) glibc from the Nix store. By dropping the need to cache, nsncd is a lot simpler than nscd - it's only purpose is to decouple your binaries from the NSS modules you have configured, which will continue to run under the system glibc. I'm going to maintain the package for the time being. If the Rust team also wants to maintain Rust leaf software, I'm also happy to collaborate there. Kind regards Philipp Kern [1] The Nix people also added support for host resolution in https://github.com/nix-community/nsncd/.
