[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#725091: Bug#725091: slapd with memory leak in active sync

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Tuesday, October 01, 2013 12:12 PM -0700 Don Armstrong 
<don at debian.org> wrote:

> If you don't have any useful responses to this bug (for example, linking
> to an ITS where this particular issue has been fixed or discussed), or
> want to help fixing or maintaining the openldap packages in Debian,
> please refrain from responding.

I guess our definitions of "useful" differ.  I'm offering advice that will 
allow the end user to have a working server.  That, to me, is useful.

> The maintainers of distribution packages in distributions like Debian do
> intend for them to be used in production use, and openldap is no
> exception. Otherwise, we wouldn't bother making the packages in the
> first place.

Funny.  I suggest you read the FAQ I linked to.  It was written for a 
reason *by* one of the Debian maintainers of the OpenLDAP package.  And I 
also linked to the changelog, which lists all the variety of fixes to 
OpenLDAP since 2.4.31 was released 1.5 years ago.

If Debian could keep a current build available to its users, then maybe I 
wouldn't have to constantly advise people not to use the Debian package. 
But as it stands, what Debian provides is not usable for a production 
service, and it should be avoided at all cost.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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