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

[Ryan Tandy]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 06:50:23PM +0200, habcawa wrote:
>I would like to ask if there is any update on this bug.
>
>We ran into this while troubleshooting a connection error during ldapsearch (from ldap-utils).
>Essentially, any connection over LDAPS will fail with an unspecific error message if libldap-common is not installed.
>Maybe at least ldap-utils should depend on libldap-common?

As always, I have to point out that Recommends are meant to be installed 
unless you know that you truly don't need them; and that libldap does 
work without libldap-common, as long as you configure the CA cert 
setting yourself.

Anyway, in trixie and later this should be a non-issue. libldap now uses 
the system CA certs by default, so the configuration that used to be 
shipped in libldap-common is no longer needed.