Slapd 2.5.13 for Bullseye, 2nd thread

[Ryan Tandy]

Hi Stefan,

On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 12:03:06PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>An external LDAP guru told me not to use 2.4 so I have to check options.

Your choice. OpenLDAP 2.4 is no longer supported by upstream (the 
OpenLDAP project), they recommend everyone move to the newer releases. 
The 2.4 package in Debian stable can still receive security support and 
select high-impact bug fixes, but on a best-effort, do-no-harm basis.

>I would appreciate getting 2.5 in backports, is there any information 
>on when those will be available etc?

It was uploaded on the weekend and is currently waiting in backports-NEW 
for ftpmaster to review and accept it:

https://ftp-master.debian.org/backports-new.html

>My customer waits for feedback how hard it will be to get 2.5.x 
>deployed. 2.4.x runs OK so far, we have only around 30 users in there 
>so the upgrade/migration should be rather easy.

I wrote a short upgrade notes for backports users: 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2022/11/msg00030.html

>Pulling packages from "testing" or so: I was told to avoid this ... no 
>mixed systems .. I can't tell if or if not ...

Would not recommend it.

thanks,
Ryan