Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-26 Severity: normal I request an adopter for the hesiod package. The package description is: Hesiod is a name service library that can provide general name service for a variety of applications. It is derived from BIND, the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon, and leverages the existing DNS infrastructure of a network. It is used on a number of university networks, including MIT and Iowa State University. . If you will not be using this system on a network that already uses Hesiod, you probably do not need this package.
The package is in generally good condition, is low maintenance and (as suggested by the description above) has a niche userbase. I am just completing an upload that fixes all outstanding non-wishlist bugs in the package. Unfortunately, the remaining wishlist bug requires the attention of someone who uses this package enough to care about portability issues; since I haven't been a member of the package's niche userbase for a couple years now, and upstream is effectively comatose (the last upstream release was in 1997), it's time to pass this package on. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: alpha Kernel: Linux quetzlcoatl 2.4.19-xfs #1 Sun Jan 12 22:23:19 CST 2003 alpha Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
