Hello Nico, First of all, let me add a disclaimer: I am *not* the maintainer of libnss-ldap nor do I have much clue about LDAP auth and even that package.
I am indeed working on it as part as a genral action wrt rotting bugs reports related to localization. Still, I went on your bug report and noticed that it was never followed up even though it has a release critical severity. Are you still experiencing that bug? From your description, this is a very handicapping bug and you might either have found a workaround...or something else fixed the problem....or maybe you are still experiencing it and are mumbling about the lack of responsiveness you got from the Debian project on this issue.... I can't really investigate the problem much more, from the elements you gave in the bug report but let's at first check if the bug is still here. If it isn't and as the version of libnss-ldap didn't change since you reported the bug (indeed, nearly nothing happened on that package since over one year, unfortunately)....it would be a proof that the bug was not in libnss-ldap. Apart from all this, I'm not entirely convinced that the bug deserves to be "severity: critical". At the minimum, it should be "serious" as it doesn't "break other software or introduces a security hole". And even "serious" might be a little bit too strong as the software is working as expected for the vast majority of users, apparently. Still, I understand this is critical *for you* of course....and I would beg you to accept apologies in the name of the Debian project for the lack of answers and followups you got. --
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