On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:08:17AM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote:
> Hello Leo,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 07:30:44PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > We discussed this previously in <https://bugs.gnu.org/30298>.
> > On Debian Stretch, I found that `apt-get install nscd` was sufficient.
> > I'm going to merge this report with #30298.
> 
> thank you for your helpful reply and for merging the bugs. Indeed your
> suggested solution works and, for the record, also fixed fetchmail, which
> was affected as well.

Great!

I do wonder if we should configure glibc with --enable-obsolete-nsl,
which apparentely restores the old behavior, at least until deprecation
turns into removal. I guess it depends on how many complaints there are,
and how soon we can rebuild glibc.