[Pkg-openldap-devel] Activity.

[Russ Allbery]

Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:

> FWIW, one of the things we're hoping to accomplish for Ubuntu Intrepid
> (due out in approximately the same timeframe as Lenny) is to switch the
> packaging completely over to cn=config so that we can straightforwardly
> solve the need for third-party packages to hook into a local LDAP
> server.  I would of course love to see this packaging work take place in
> Debian unstable at the same time, but that of course depends on you guys
> being willing to commit to such an ambitious change in the given
> timeframe.  Howard Chu's opinion was that we're officially "not insane"
> to attempt such a switch given the current upstream state; what say you?

This is absolutely the right thing to do for the long run.  However, I'm
not sure that we have enough manpower to stabilize such a change before
the lenny release, and I wouldn't want to release something that's
half-broken for lenny.  If we can just reuse the Ubuntu work and you *do*
have enough manpower, and the Debian release team is comfortable with the
schedule (while the library isn't changing, we'd still be uploading new
versions of it with slapd, so they'd have to be unblocking that), I'm good
with this idea.

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