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

[Ryan Tandy]

Hi Helmut,

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 09:26:26PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
>I think that when adding a stage one should look further than just the
>immediate cycle. This is the main reason that prevented me from
>submitting a stage for openldap: I was lacking assurance that I was
>doing it correctly.
>
>Given further testing I now have somewhat more confidence, so let me
>propose a very different stage1: --disable-slapd
>
>Why does this make sense? This stage builds way less than the stage
>proposed by Daniel. It also drops heimdal, but it also drops
>cyrus-sasl2. Keep in mind that cyrus-sasl2 and openldap do have a direct
>cycle that needs to be addressed in either cyrus-sasl2 or openldap. So
>rather than add yet another stage to drop libsasl2-dev or add a stage to
>cyrus-sasl2 dropping libldap2-dev, I therefore think that openldap's
>stage1 should also drop the libsasl2-dev dependency. Turns out the
>easiest way to do so is just not building the server.

I don't have any objection to building stage1 without slapd, if that 
helps. Most of the Build-Depends are only needed for slapd. For just the 
libraries and clients, I'd say we only need debhelper, dh-autoreconf, 
gnutls-dev, libsasl2-dev, and groff. Maybe a couple more, not certain.  
(Hmm.... I actually don't even know what ncurses-dev is used for...)

I'm a bit more concerned about dropping libsasl2-dev, as this disables 
SASL functionality in libldap-2.4-2 and ldap-utils. Functions such as 
ldap_sasl_bind are still exported, but only return LDAP_NOT_SUPPORTED.  
This also makes dpkg-gensymbols complain, as a few internal/private 
SASL-related symbols disappear.