4 Standards-Version: 3.8.3
5 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), groff-base
6 Maintainer: Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>
12 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
16 Homepage: http://busybox.net/~vda/unscd/
17 Description: Micro Name Service Caching Daemon
18 A daemon which handles passwd, group and host lookups for running
19 programs and caches the results for the next query. You only need
20 this package if you are using slow Name Services like LDAP, NIS or
23 This particular NSCD is a complete rewrite of the GNU glibc nscd
24 which is a single threaded server process which offloads all NSS
25 lookups to worker children; cache hits are handled by the parent,
26 and only cache misses start worker children, making the parent immune
27 to resource leaks, hangs, and crashes in NSS libraries.
29 It should mostly be a drop-in replacement for existing installs using