4 Standards-Version: 3.9.2
5 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), groff-base
6 Maintainer: Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>
7 VCS-Browser: http://websvn.donarmstrong.com/listing.php?repname=deb_pkgs&path=%2Funscd%2Ftrunk%2F
8 VCS-Svn: http://svn.donarmstrong.com/deb_pkgs/unscd/trunk/
13 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
17 Homepage: http://busybox.net/~vda/unscd/
18 Description: Micro Name Service Caching Daemon
19 A daemon which handles passwd, group and host lookups for running
20 programs and caches the results for the next query. You only need
21 this package if you are using slow Name Services like LDAP, NIS or
24 This particular NSCD is a complete rewrite of the GNU glibc nscd
25 which is a single threaded server process which offloads all NSS
26 lookups to worker children; cache hits are handled by the parent,
27 and only cache misses start worker children, making the parent immune
28 to resource leaks, hangs, and crashes in NSS libraries.
30 It should mostly be a drop-in replacement for existing installs using