[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#236584: please add a filtering capability to the shell-backend

[Ryan Tandy]

Control: tags -1 - moreinfo + confirmed

On 08/09/14 01:20 PM, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Ryan Tandy (ryan at nardis.ca) [140908 19:03]:
>> The patch you provided (thanks for that!) needs some updating to apply
>> to the current code. However it looks like it should be easy to fix up,
>> and I'd be happy to work on that if it helps someone. Do you still use
>> this feature anywhere?
>
> Not now (I used that to provide the bts2ldap gateway for the list of
> RC bugs before we had interfaces to the bts or even udd). However, I
> will use it again soon (it's an quite easy way to get ldap connected
> to some backend, and avoid that the backend needs to duplicate
> something which is more easy to do in ldap).
>
>
>> An explicit copyright notice or assignment to the public domain will
>> probably be needed. Would you be able to provide that? See
>> <http://www.openldap.org/devel/contributing.html>.
>
> I'll go with this one:
>   Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
>   modification, are permitted only as authorized by the OpenLDAP Public
>   License.
>
> (And just to be clear as this is legal stuff, this patch is derived
> from the OpenLDAP-Sourcecode itself (of course, as a patch to it), and
> not from any other work.)
>
> If another assignment would be better, please just tell me.

I expect that will be fine. Thank you very much for the quick response! 
I will try to not take another 10 years to get this updated and 
forwarded... :)