[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#499560: Bug#499560: Bug#499560: OpenLDAP 2.4.11 declared stable by upstream

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On September 19, 2008 7:27:04 PM -0700 Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> 
wrote:

> Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah at zimbra.com> writes:
>
>> I'm not aware of any special build parameters required for BDB 4.6 to run
>> safely with OpenLDAP.  Certainly nothing is listed in the OpenLDAP 2.4
>> Admin guide appendix on recommended releases.
>
> Well, you were the one who said this originally, I thought... something
> about the locking mechanism and its interaction with threads?  It's been a
> while.
>
> Ah, here we go:
>
>     http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=421946#70
>
> It wasn't a safety issue, it was a speed issue.  Sorry about the
> confusion.

Yeah, and unfortunately it looks like this is still an issue with 4.7. 
Whether or not it is an impacting issue will entirely depend on how people 
use their servers.  Or, the fixed config option can be used at build time. 
I'm guessing that no further testing was done along the lines Howard 
suggested in that bug report for the other platforms Debian's concerned 
with.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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