Source: libnss-nis Section: admin Priority: optional Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers Uploaders: Aurelien Jarno Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), libtirpc-dev, libnsl-dev, pkgconf Rules-Requires-Root: no Standards-Version: 4.6.2 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/libnss-nis Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/libnss-nis.git Homepage: https://github.com/thkukuk/libnss_nis Package: libnss-nis Architecture: any Multi-Arch: same Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends} Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: NSS module for using NIS as a naming service This package provides a Name Service Switch that allows your NIS server act as a name service. This means providing user account information, group id's, host information, aliases, netgroups, and basically anything else that you would normally get from /etc flat files. . This module was formerly part of glibc, but is now standalone to be able to link against TI-RPC for IPv6 support.