[Pkg-openldap-devel] OpenLDAP package bug status

[Russ Allbery]

Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> writes:

> There are a few patterns that account for several of our remaining bugs:

>  * I think symbol versioning on some library is not quite up to the task,
>    since there's clearly some weird interaction when libnss-ldap is in
>    play between slapd and the 2.3 libraries, libnss-ldap and the 2.1
>    libraries, OpenSSL, and GnuTLS.  I'm betting this is the root cause
>    behind all of #309026, #314793, #340601 (although this may be some
>    other problem that's been fixed; I can't test), #412706, and #381788.
>    The last bug has an interesting workaround.

Er, yes.  Neither the 2.3 libraries nor the 2.1 libraries use symbol
versioning at all.  I expect that will indeed cause these sorts of
problems.

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