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[Impact]
the 32bit libnss-sss can't be installed on amd64, since the package depends on perl which isn't multiarched. Reimplementing the snippet that used perl allows the package to drop the dependency.

[Test case]
try to install libnss-sss:i386 on amd64

[Regression potential]
the perl snippet was replaced with (from postinst):

    # append 'sss' to the end of the line if it's not found already
    sed -i --regexp-extended '
      /^(passwd|group|netgroup):/ {
        /\bsss\b/! s/$/ sss/
      }
    ' /etc/nsswitch.conf

this has independently been verified to work. Note that the perl version
added the entry for shadow as well, but SSSD doesn't handle shadow maps.

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I discovered this on Maverick amd64. When attempting to run a 32 bit
application, we get the following error, and the application fails to
run.

$ acroread

(acroread:20387): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown
user id (1115)

According to https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/190 , this is due to
the 32 bit application being unable to load the 64 bit library.

After installing the 32bit libnss-sss package files to /lib32, acroread
works as expected.

Please include the 32bit libnss-sss.so in the 64bit package, or do what
libnss-ldap does to handle this.

Thank you.

** Affects: sssd (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Low
     Assignee: Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: sssd (Ubuntu Precise)
     Importance: High
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: sssd (Debian)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: New

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perl dependency prevents installing the 32bit libs on amd64
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/692727
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