[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#711469: Bug#711469: Can we have libslapi-dev back please:

[Florian Schlichting]

Hi Ryan,

thanks for taking this up, and more generally for giving the openldap
package so much love the last few years!

> Hi, thank you for pinging the bug, and for the patch. I intend to make an
> upload in the coming weeks and I will definitely evaluate this addition. Do
> you have a convenient test case that I could use for verifying the result?

Like, what kind of test case? How do you test libldap2-dev?

There's no additional binary or something being built that would need to
be tested. The build should result in a new binary package slapi-dev,
which contains the unmodified /include/slapi-plugin.h from the upstream
source, as well as a shared library symlink:

-rw-r--r-- root/root     38351 2017-08-10 19:12 ./usr/include/slapi-plugin.h
lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2017-08-10 19:12 ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libslapi.so -> libslapi-2.4.so.2.10.7

I think the issue behind this bug is the question whether a
single-header -dev package is worthwhile, or if it could just be
included in the general libldap2-dev package. I'm fine either way, I
just need include/slapi-plugin.h be available in any Debian package.

BTW #650501 is also a request to ship more headers that are part of the
openldap shared library API. In my understanding, shipping headers for
shared libraries is a risk-free thing to do (unless you don't want
people to use your shared library, but then what's the point of having
it in the first place?) so I think that bug could also be acted upon
without worrying too much.

Florian