Hi Arthur, Barry, Moritz, * Arthur de Jong <adej...@debian.org> [200707 20:02]: > On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 19:25 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > The current maintainer of libnss-ldap, Richard A Nelson (Rick) > > <cow...@debian.org, is apparently not active anymore. Therefore, I > > orphan this package now. > > If anyone is willing to be maintainer of the libnss-ldap and libpam-ldap > packages I'm willing to help getting the packages into shape.
[..] > I may also point people to libnss-ldapd and libpam-ldapd as alternatives > (depending on whether anyone else is willing to do any work on this). [..] > The alternative is to remove the packages (see #717917 and #717918) > which, while being good for the popularity of my packages ;), would > perhaps not be the most ideal situation. Do any of you think the situation has changed since 2013? Personally I would not want to have once popular NSS and PAM libraries in the next stable release, if upstream has vanished a long time ago. Maybe its time to reopen 717917 and 717918? Chris