Debian bug report logs - #1722
Smail should support YP (was Re: Lost mail to iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk)

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From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
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Version: 3.1.29.1-13

David Engel writes ("Re: Lost mail to iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk"):
> > I don't know whether Smail's yp lookup facilities are compiled into
> > the Debian Smail binary.  If they're not and it's reasonably easy to
> > do I could change that.
> 
> The Debian binary does not support YP.  I rebuilt with -DHAVE_YP,
> however, and limited testing shows it to be working fine.  What are
> the chances of getting this included in the next Debian binary?  The
> resulting binary is the same size and YP isn't actually used unless
> the directors files specifies it, so I can't see any problem with
> including it.

I'll build it into the next version.  (I've filed this as a quiet bug
report to remind me.)

Ian.