[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#724518: openldap: Patch to allow bootstrapping without heimdal-dev

[Helmut Grohne]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:36:00PM -0700, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> I don't have any objections - based on my experience, just libldap2-dev and
> dependencies are sufficient for progressing the bootstrap.  On the other
> hand, I also have a cyrus-sasl2 bootstrap that also gets rid of
> krb5-multidev, libpq-dev, heimdal-multidev, libmysqlclient-dev, libkrb5-dev
> Build-Depends in addition to libldap2-dev; so unless you have a drastically
> different bootstrapping process that makes those dependencies available, I
> don't see it reducing the number of bootstrap builds needed.  I also don't
> see your patch removing the openldap Build-Depends on libsasl2-dev.

Hmm, not sure what I saw here. My reasoning about cyrus-sasl2 is
obviously wrong after looking closely enough. Indeed, cyrus-sasl2
already has DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=no-ldap (not quite a stage but close).
It's a while since I stared at the relevant graphs.

What I can say for sure though is that the cross bootstrap still has
trouble with perl and the thinner stage1 drops libperl-dev, which means
that I can cross openldap without having to figure out Perl yet. There
is no (apparent) cycle with Perl, so the need for this is less clear.

I guess what is committed works, but it forces me to look into Perl. If
this thinner stage1 works for you as well, maybe we can just use it?

Helmut