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

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:51 PM +0200 Matthijs Mohlmann 
<matthijs at cacholong.nl> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm not really a fan of this feature because it will break upgrades from
> earlier versions to the current version. (Well if the feature exist it
> would be easier to do upgrades) but I think a well designed directory
> shouldn't need this feature. You can eventually write your own schema's
> which are less strict then those shipped with slapd.
>
> I don't know if this is worth a note in README.Debian...

Yeah, being able to turn off schema checking was always a very bad idea. 
There were a number of good reasons for that function to be removed.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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Stanford University
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