[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#421946: Bug#421946: openldap2.3: build against newer Berkeley DB

[Roberto C. Sánchez]

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 08:29:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> openldap2.3 is still building against db4.2 at upstream's specific
> recommendation.  According to upstream, db4.5 (and db4.4) have regressions
> from db4.2 in supporting OpenLDAP.
> 
> They have hopes for db4.6, once it's finally released.
> 
> This doesn't necessarily mean that we shouldn't switch to db4.5 anyway,
> depending on the severity of the regressions, but I wanted to note in the
> bug log that there was a reason why this hadn't been done other than
> simple lack of time.
> 
This is something that we on the cyrus-sasl2 team are also dealing with.
I think that what has held us back so far from going out on a limb is
the integral nature of cyrus-sasl2 for most systems.  I would argue that
openldap is in a similar situation, since it is often used as the source
of authentication information.  Any breakage there has the potential to
be catastrophic.  Of course, I am doubtful that db4.2 will be supported
for an another release cycle.  It is rather old at this point, after
all.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez
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