[Pkg-openldap-devel] Package status

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 03:04:28PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I'm still of mixed feelings about:

>   #385898: slapd: add lsb logging

As do I.

> We should probably talk about whether it would help anything with all our
> important bugs about SSL/TLS problems to add symbol versioning to libldap,
> at least the 2.3 version (I don't really want to touch the 2.1 packages
> very badly).

I think that we should, for 2.3.  Adding symbol versioning to libldap2 is
only going to help if we think libldap2 will still be with us when lenny
releases (or if we think it's important enough to resolve right now for
unstable), since the symbols will only benefit software that's rebuilt
against the new version of libldap2.

> For 2.3.35-3, it would be good to look at our backward compatibility code
> and upgrade support and consider removing anything that only applies to
> versions of OpenLDAP from prior to oldstable.  In a quick look, I think
> we're carrying a lot of that code around that could be dropped, along with
> a bunch of debconf templates.  We should decide whether we're keeping
> fix_ldif around as well.

Agreed.  I think we should drop fix_ldif from the package, fwiw; if we have
a future need of it, it's always available in the svn history.

> I'd also like to revisit patches/use-lpthread and see if we can get rid of
> it now by fixing whatever other bug made it necessary in the first place
> (or observing that the bug is already fixed), since it's the only reason
> right now why we have to run all the autotools during build.

Bug in the mips* toolchain; -pthread does not imply -lpthread when used
together with -shared, so shared libs wind up with a missing ELF dependency.

The bug in gcc remains unfixed after several years, I have no idea why that
would be the case given that Debian's mips porters have been aware of it
since the beginning.

Cheers,
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