Bug#368297: About the libgcrypt and OpenLDAP issue

[Howard Chu]

Werner Koch wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:22, hyc at symas.com said:
>> Frankly, speaking for the OpenLDAP Project, what we want is to delete
>> all support for GnuTLS. It is, like Mozilla NSS, a poorly designed API
>
> Split OpenLDAP into a daemon and a simple access library and things
> would be more robust.  This also avoids the hard library dependencies
> and the need for applications to runtime link to several versions of the
> same library.

You're absolutely right. That's why nss-pam-ldapd exists, and why OpenLDAP has 
supported it (using either nssov or nslcd) since June 2008. We've spent enough 
time on this, it's past time to move on.

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