Bug#1073060: libldap2: libldap should depend on libldap-common

[Athos Ribeiro]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 05:16:27PM -0700, Ryan Tandy wrote:
>Hello Athos,
>
>On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 10:53:37AM -0300, Athos Ribeiro wrote:
>>Installing packages which depend on libldap2 with
>>--no-install-recommends will not install the libldap-common package.
>>
>>This may result in unexpected behaviors when libldap2 code paths are
>>triggered due to a missing reference to the trusted CAs certificates,
>>which is defined by the configuration file shipped in libldap-common.
>
>Yes. It's not a great user experience, and while I believe Recommends 
>is technically Policy-compliant, I agree Depends would be preferable.
>
>>Since the dak bug affects several other packages, this should, ideally,
>>be fixed in dak.
>
>I am marking this bug as blocked by the dak bug for visibility. Due to 
>the severe consequences when the issue occurs (many packages become 
>BD-Uninstallable due to transitive build-dependencies on libldap, 
>requiring a manual bootstrap upload of openldap to resolve), I cannot 
>accept the patch until _after_ dak has been fixed.

Thanks for the quick reply here, Ryan!

I understand the pain there. How often did the issue occur back then
when the libldap-common was in Depends?

-- 
Athos Ribeiro