[Pkg-openldap-devel] Backporting slapd out of jessie to wheezy possible?

[Ryan Tandy]

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 04:08:36PM +0100, Luca Bruno wrote:
>On Monday 24 November 2014 21:55:49 Ryan Tandy wrote:
>> How would you feel about the backport using gnutls28? It's already
>> available in wheezy-backports with its dependencies. The benefit is that
>> it resolves #368297 and its various relatives; but the downside is that
>> installing libgnutls28 from wheezy-backports also pulls in newer nettle,
>> hogweed, and p11-kit libraries.
>
>I would say: let's go for gnutls28.
>Packages seem mostly updated and in synch with jessie, and we expect some
>issues when using the old ones. I don't think anybody will complain about
>pulling-in some more stuff from bpo.

So the above is what we did, but I think we inadvertently introduced a 
licensing problem by doing it. GMP in wheezy is still LGPLv3+, which is 
exactly the issue that delayed us from moving to GnuTLS 3 in the first 
place.

While this isn't a problem for openldap itself, linking libldap this way 
probably introduced a problem for anyone who runs GPLv2-only software 
(cups is the usual suspect...) linked against libldap on a wheezy system 
where they also installed this backport.

I guess the safest and least invasive solution is to switch the wheezy 
backport back to gnutls26, like the original wheezy package had.

Thoughts?

thanks,

Ryan, who feels stupid for not noticing this the first time around...