4 Standards-Version: 4.1.4
5 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10), groff-base, help2man,
7 Maintainer: Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>
8 Homepage: https://busybox.net/~vda/unscd/
9 Vcs-Browser: https://git.donarmstrong.com/unscd.git
10 Vcs-Git: https://git.donarmstrong.com/unscd.git
15 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, lsb-base
19 Description: Micro Name Service Caching Daemon
20 A daemon which handles passwd, group and host lookups for running
21 programs and caches the results for the next query. You only need
22 this package if you are using slow Name Services like LDAP, NIS or
25 This particular NSCD is a complete rewrite of the GNU glibc nscd
26 which is a single threaded server process which offloads all NSS
27 lookups to worker children; cache hits are handled by the parent,
28 and only cache misses start worker children, making the parent immune
29 to resource leaks, hangs, and crashes in NSS libraries.
31 It should mostly be a drop-in replacement for existing installs using