[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#897898: libldap-common is missing

[Mathieu Mitchell]

Package: openldap
Version: 2.4.46+dfsg-2

The libldap-common package is missing from the packages list.

This means common packages, such as curl, or even reportbug, cannot be
installed because they eventually depend on this package.
Digging the list of requirements leads to the missing package,
libldap-common.

root at f74a0b1dd389:/# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian sid InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
root at f74a0b1dd389:/# apt-get install libldap-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package libldap-common is not available, but is referred to by another
package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'libldap-common' has no installation candidate

root at f74a0b1dd389:/# apt-cache policy libldap-common
libldap-common:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:

Additionally, the filelist link for the package crashes with a No such
package: https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/libldap-common/filelist

Also, the following command indicates the package is missing from the main
package list:
curl http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
| zgrep
'^Package: libldap-common'
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