[Pkg-openldap-devel] RFC: introducing slapd-contrib binary package

[Steve Langasek]

Hi Ryan,

On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 09:31:50PM -0700, Ryan Tandy wrote:
> Hi everyone,

> In the list of open bugs I see several requests to include different
> contrib modules in the slapd package: #746727, #701111, #592362,
> #358829, maybe others I missed. Besides those, autogroup, nssov, and
> smbk5pwd are already packaged.

> I'm thinking about introducing a new binary package containing all the
> contrib modules (or at least all the ones that are easy to package).
> There are plenty of precedents for that:

> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=contrib

> What do you think about this idea?

> Assuming such a package were to be added, should smbk5pwd become part of
> it, or remain in its own package? How about other contrib modules that
> bring additional Depends? (pw-radius, ??)

Well, bug #358829 is about packaging a library; that certainly doesn't seem
like it should go in a package with all of the others.

I don't have any strong opinion on whether contrib plugins should go in one
package or several.  You could start with a single package and see if anyone
complains about the extra dependencies.  In that case, maybe it makes sense
to keep smbk5pwd separate, at least initially.

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