[Pkg-openldap-devel] Dropping SLP support from slapd fro Stretch?

[Ryan Tandy]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 09:50:26PM +0100, Luca BRUNO wrote:
>we are currently building slapd with --enable-slp, thus linking against
>libslp1.
>However, the openslp-dfsg package is pretty much abandoned since 2007 and
>there is a proposal to remove it for Stretch:
>https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795428

I knew it was orphaned/QA-maintained, but had not seen the proposal to 
remove it.

>As I guess that slapd (and nis) are the main reasons why that library is still
>floating around, I think it could be the case to just stop enabling it.

Sounds fine to me, however I haven't checked whether this affects our 
ABI at all. (Looks like it's only a slapd thing, so probably not.) It's 
an easy change to revert, if someone wants it back for a local build. We 
should mention it in NEWS.Debian.

>I've personally never seen it in any operational environment, and popcon count
>for the corresponding daemon is ~200. Any opinion if it is still worth to be
>kept for slapd?

I haven't heard of anyone using it. The only time it has been mentioned 
upstream in my memory is when the new OpenSLP release broke things. 
(http://www.openldap.org/its?findid=8278) So I'm fine with removing it 
unless/until someone packages OpenSLP 2.0 and mentions that they want 
slapd to support it.