Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the autofs package.
I will do so myself around 20. of October, though that will be too late for sarge, and I have no time to work further on it before then. Further I have no clue on Hesiod, LDAP and NIS+, if you use one of these and want to help you're welcome. You don't need to be a registered Debian developer. To: Arthur Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Daniel Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [autofs] still actively maintained > I'd like to see a current and fixed up version of autofs (ie > 4.*) in sarge. Do you want to keep the package? Are you going > to do it yourself or can I NMU it? > > I'm willing to adopt it if that's OK with you. That would be OK. Unfortunately, I've been too busy for a long time now, more busy than I thought first. The problem is that it's not a simple task to update to a newer version of autofs, since the new package should be compatible as much as possible to the existing package. The main problem is the init script, which has become very Debian specific. Note that Ian Kent, the upstream author of autofs, has already merged some of the debian/patches into the upstream code. -Daniel The package description is: Autofs controls the operation of the automount daemons. The automount daemons automatically mount filesystems when they are used and unmount them after a period of inactivity. This is done based on a set of pre-configured maps. . The kernel automounter implements an almost complete SunOS style automounter under Linux. The automounter is supported by Linux kernels 2.0.31 and higher. Automounter support must be activated while compiling the kernel. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (50, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686 Locale: LANG=de_CH, LC_CTYPE=de_CH
