[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#499314: libldap-2.4-2: Problem installing 3rd party packages depending on libldap2

[Ryan Fitch-Davis]

Package: libldap-2.4-2
Version: 2.4.10-3
Severity: minor

Trying to install a package built against Etch that depends on libldap2.
Installing using --force-depends has the package working perfectly.
Every time I run apt-get update it uninstalls the 3rd party package
citing unmet dependancies.
I tried using equivs to create a package that depended on the Lenny
version of libldap and provided the older libldap2 as a fake package.
This fails to install because libldap-2.4-2 conflicts with libldap2.

Perhaps having libldap-2.4-2 provide libldap2? If I understand the
package manager this would still ensure that no other package providing
libldap2 would be installable.

Of course there may also be subtle reasons for things being as they are
that I'm unaware of...


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.3-ougun-8a (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libldap-2.4-2 depends on:
ii  libc6                    2.7-13          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgnutls26              2.4.1-1         the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libsasl2-2               2.1.22.dfsg1-23 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra

libldap-2.4-2 recommends no packages.

libldap-2.4-2 suggests no packages.

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