[Pkg-openldap-devel] iODBC vs. UnixODBC?

[Russ Allbery]

Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:

> And 2.4.7-1 is away to unstable at last.  Hurray!
>
> One thing I noted while prepping the upload is that we're
> build-depending on libiodbc2-dev.  I'm not convinced there's much value
> in having two ODBC driver managers in Debian (UnixODBC and iODBC), and
> think it would be better to move towards building everything against a
> single DM: while both DMs are supposed to be ABI-compatible and having
> them both around is somewhat useful for interoperability testing, if
> this is the only reason for having them both I don't think it's really
> worthwhile to have the duplicated code.
>
> So would it be reasonable to switch the build-dep to unixodbc-dev for
> the next upload?

I have no opinion.  I'm guessing that this is only used by back-sql
anyway, which is pretty marginal as far as OpenLDAP is concerned, so it
probably makes very little difference.

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