Bug#1109791: libldap-dev: The openldap library aborts with an assert on an error

[Daniel Stenberg]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2025, John Scott wrote:

> In conclusion, it looks like upstream's default to build assertions in and 
> it's not obvious if downstream distributors are supposed to pass 
> --disable-debug explicitly.

Given this information, it certainly seems like I made some wrong assumptions. 
If indeed OpenLDAP themselves do this (and ships with asserts aborting by 
default), then I think the problem (because I think it is a problem) is theirs 
to fix and not Debian's as I had presumed.

Thanks,

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