[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#330695: Bug#330695: libldap2: /etc/ldap/ldap.conf breaks multiarch and on soname change

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 07:47:31PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

> > If you write the file in postinst (then probably using ucf) you would
> > have to remove the file in postrm on purge. But if lidldap2 and libldap3
> > are installed and libldap2 is purged the conffile must remain. Same
> > under multiarch if libldap2:i386 and libldap2:amd64 are installed and
> > one is purged.

> > Currently a file just can't belong to 2 packages without causing
> > problems.

> I see that we're indeed still shipping /etc/ldap/ldap.conf in the library
> package.  This is a Policy violation (8.2); we really should do something
> about it.

> All values are commented-out in the default version and the library seems
> to run fine if the file is missing entirely.  I propose we just move the
> file into /usr/share/doc/libldap-2.4-2/examples and mention it in
> README.Debian.  Any objections?

I'm concerned that not shipping the default config file in a package
somewhere would make this less discoverable for users; and while I don't
think we want to ship a completely separate binary package just for the
ldap.conf(5) manpage, if we don't also split the manpage out then we'll
still have problems for multiarch, AFAICS.

So I think having a small -common package of some sort is ultimately the
better answer.

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