RFC: -server packages universe demotions and main promotions

[Thierry Carrez]

Andreas Olsson wrote:
>>>  # nis
>> Especially in university environments, nis is still really used a lot.
>> At least at the place I work, all our student and employee user
>> databases handled for unix systems are maintained in nis.  True, ldap is
>> superiour in many ways, but unless there is a compelling reason for
>> demoting it, I'd rather have it in main.
> 
> +1
> 
> Any particular rational behind the proposed demotion of the NIS package?

We recommend using an LDAP setup to achieve the same results.

The generic rationale for supporting only the recommended way of doing
things is to lessen the burden of maintenance, which for an LTS release
on server is significant. However this is not a hard rule, since many
more factors (like, in this case, integration with existing
environments) should also be taken into account. That's why we gather
feedback from the community of that list :)

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Thierry Carrez
Ubuntu server team