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

[Ryan Tandy]

Hi Florian,

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 10:34:14AM +0100, Florian Schlichting wrote:
>what's the status on this? Having slapi-dev in buster would save me at
>least several openldap recompiles :-)

Thanks for the ping. I have not had much time for working on the 
openldap package lately but I have noted this on my list of things to 
look at on my upcoming vacation. I understand it would be good to have 
this in buster.

As I understand, you are already using the proposed patch (re-adding 
slapi-dev) in your own builds? If you're confident the built package 
works, you are welcome to NMU (or team-upload :-)) the addition.

The things I would want do before uploading myself are:

- figure out what the "discussion with ftp-master" referenced in the 
  2.4.7-2 changelog was about and determine whether further follow-up is 
  needed;
- check for file collisions with other packages (389-ds uses slapi, I'm 
  not sure whether public headers/libs are installed); and
- build and test some kind of example SLAPI module to convince myself 
  the slapi-dev package is functional.

(hmm, shouldn't the package properly be called libslapi-dev?)

Thanks
Ryan