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

[Russ Allbery]

tags 383237 wontfix
thanks

> 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 :-\

Hello,

I'm going to tag this bug wontfix because after discussion with upstream,
they consider this a feature rather than a bug and I really doubt that
they'll ever re-implement this option.  It's also not the sort of thing
that I'd want to see Debian maintain as a local patch.

I agree with the idea of documenting it in README.Debian at the time that
you submitted your bug, but at this point, with etch releasing with a
version that requires schema checking, there probably isn't much point any
more.  All of the users upgrading to a new package would have already
adjusted to this, one way or the other.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>