libnss-ldapd package shoud depend of nslcd

[Mathieu]

It took long before I understand why a simple "id remote_user" was replying "id: remote_user: No such user" instead of that user's info "uid=12345(remote_user) gid=..."

According to /usr/share/doc/libnss-ldapd/README.gz:
"This package runs a local daemon that will be enabled during the boot process. This daemon will handle connections to the LDAP server"

However, this little daemon was not installed after installing libnss-ldapd 0.6.11ubuntu2 and I had to install it by hand.

Wouldn't libnss-ldapd depends of nslcd?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jan 15 16:57:46 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: libnss-ldapd 0.6.11ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: nss-ldapd
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686

[Arthur de Jong (adejong)]

Yes, the libnss-ldapd package should depend on nslcd. An alternative to nslcd is running a slapd with an nssov module but I don't know in which package that module is (that package should problably provide nslcd),

[Daniel Miller (dmiller)]

I second, triple, quadruple the motion here. In Jaunty, nslcd is included in the package. In Karmic, nslcd was broken out to a separate package - and was only specified as "recommended". THIS CAUSES MASSIVE HEADACHES, ULCERS, CRAMPS, AND WEIGHT GAIN!!!

Can we PLEASE get this relationship changed to "depends"?! Since libnss-ldapd doesn't have any useful purpose (at least none I know) without nslcd (it actually seems silly to have nslcd broken out unless some other package can provide this function - in which case libnss-ldapd needs to depend on a virtual package that nslcd and whatever else fulfills) - the makes libnss-ldapd a broken workstation waiting to happen.

[Rune Philosof (olberd)]

I can see that this has been fixed in the lucid version.
But it would have been simple to also do so in karmic!