[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#383237: slapd: schemacheck option dropped in new upstream release

[Margarita Manterola]

Package: slapd
Version: 2.3.24-2
Severity: important

Hi!

The "schemacheck" option has been dropped in the new upstream release.
This means that slapd will always check the schemas from now on.

If a current installation has the option set to "schemacheck off", where
the schemas aren't completely fulfilled, then slapd suddenly won't start
after upgrade.

Even though I understand that there might be good reasons to be strict
about checking the schemas, this is breaking the current installations
that make use of this previous option, which I find quite unacceptable.

I found this in OpenLDAP mailing lists:
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200509/msg00476.html

Apparently, it was removed because it was difficult to implement it, or
something like that.  They say they'd accept a patch that re-adds it, I
don't know how difficult this might be.

I'm really disappointed at this feature removal.  I don't know if there
is a fix.  But at least there should be a warning on postinst, and it
should be documented in README.Debian :-\

Love,
	Marga

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-k7
Locale: LANG=es_AR, LC_CTYPE=es_AR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages slapd depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.63             Add and remove users and groups
ii  coreutils               5.2.1-2          The GNU core utilities
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.4.30.13        Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                   2.3.6-7          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.2                4.2.52-18        Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii  libiodbc2               3.52.4-3         iODBC Driver Manager
ii  libldap-2.3-0           2.3.24-2         OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libltdl3                1.5.6-6          A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libperl5.8              5.8.8-4          Shared Perl library
ii  libsasl2                2.1.19.dfsg1-0.2 Authentication abstraction library
ii  libslp1                 1.0.11a-2        OpenSLP libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8             0.9.8b-2         SSL shared libraries
ii  libwrap0                7.6.dbs-8        Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  perl [libmime-base64-pe 5.8.8-4          Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  psmisc                  21.5-1           Utilities that use the proc filesy

Versions of packages slapd recommends:
ii  db4.2-util              4.2.52-18        Berkeley v4.2 Database Utilities
ii  libsasl2-modules        2.1.19.dfsg1-0.2 Pluggable Authentication Modules f

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