sssd, not nscd, foreign distro and release?

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Tue, 01 Mar 2022 at 18:24, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
>> Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>> The Guix manual recommends running nscd:
>>>
>>> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Application-Setup.html
>>>
>>> However, Fedora intends to remove it:
>>>
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RemoveNSCD
>>
>> D’oh!  This is bad.  It might suggest that nscd will vanish from glibc
>> as well, given it’s partly developed by the same group of people.
>
> Carlos O’Donell (of glibc) was kind enough to start a discussion
> explaining why this is a concern for Guix (and Nix and others) and
> proposing possible ways forward:
>
>   https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2022-February/136741.html
>
> continued:
>
>   https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2022-March/thread.html#136745

What is the status of this?  Can it be blocking for the next release?


Cheers,
simon