I think Thierry's solution in comment #10 is the way to go. It's appropriate for ldap-auth-client to depend on libpam-ldap, because that's the intent of the metapackage. But ldap-auth-config provides /etc/ldap.conf, which you need whether or not you're using LDAP for authentication. (That package would be better named "ldap-config".)
I see that libnss-ldap now recommends ldap-auth-config instead of hard- depending on it. But this is not useful, because without /etc/ldap.conf, you have no working LDAP setup. (Robie Basak made this change recently; I've subscribed him to this bug.) I think that this particular hard dependency was correct, in fact---unless you manually create a new /etc/ldap.conf from scratch, I see no reason why you would want to install libnss-ldap without ldap-auth-config (dependencies of the latter aside). [tl;dr] IMO, the solution is * ldap-auth-config Recommends ldap-auth-client * libnss-ldap Depends-on ldap-auth-config -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to libnss-ldap in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/334374 Title: libnss-ldap should not depend on libpam-ldap To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ldap-auth-client/+bug/334374/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
