[Pkg-samba-maint] Re: samba 3.0.23d in debian etch

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:03:41AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > Is there a reason samba is linked against the old libldap2 libraries
> > (2.1.30)?   The current release of openldap is in etch, in libldap-2.3-0
> > (2.3.30).

> Well, the build dependency is on "libldap2-dev". I never digged into
> all this so it's very needed to extend this question to other
> maintainers of the samba package.

> It is indeed strange that we build depend on libldap2-dev, which is
> the 2.1.* version of LDAP stuff.

> However, the openldap2.3 package which seems to be the recent LDAP
> stuff, does not provide any -dev package. I wonder what I'm missin
> ghere but without any doubt Steve will have the answer..:-)

OpenLDAP 2.1 is the only version that has been ported to GNUTLS instead of
OpenSSL, so it's the only version for which Debian provides a -dev package.

Work to port OpenLDAP 2.3 to GNUTLS is underway, but obviously won't be
ready in time for etch.

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