[Pkg-openldap-devel] Activity.

[Russ Allbery]

Matthijs Mohlmann <matthijs at cacholong.nl> writes:

> I've been inactive for a few months, but my situation is changing again
> and I can be more active in the future. This had to do with starting my
> own company in the past months and trouble that was moving in leaving
> the company where I first worked as employee. This has settled down now,
> so I have time more time available for Debian.

Excellent!

> I see that the current OpenLDAP packages are a bit unmaintained and that
> Russ and other team members have not yet much time to work on it. Some
> help is needed to get it in shape for Lenny. So I think it's time to
> sent out a RFH to get a new team member who has the capabilities and is
> active enough to help us out here.

I'm definitely in favor of this.  I sent mail to the list a while back
wondering if this would be a good idea, but Steve didn't have a chance to
reply.  I think it's reasonable to just go ahead.

> Planning:
> Update to the new upstream release (currently: 2.4.9) after that review
> the upgrade procedure from Etch to Lenny.

Note that 2.4.9 isn't what we want to release with; it has more lingering
issues.  It is, however, probably much better than what we have now, so I
think it's fine as an intermediate step.

> Russ: I saw you talking about 2.4.10, what's the status of that ?

Upstream has committed a bunch of patches for it, but I don't know where
we are in the release cycle.  Quanah, do you think it will be out within
the next few weeks?  If not, we're getting close to the lenny library
freeze.

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