[Pkg-samba-maint] libldb depends expression

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2022-04-02 at 08:27 +0200, Mathieu Parent wrote:
> > And to be fair, I don't even know what these modules are, and
> > how the said modules in dsdb-modules are related with the ones
> > in libldb2? Can libldb2 load modules from dsdb-modules? How
> > about the other way around?  They're both in the same subdir.
> 
> 
> Andrew has all those answers, he is probably the top commiter of ldb
> 
> and AD LDAP ;-).

So, the modules in dsdb-modules are essentially the core of the Samba
AD DC.

We thought we were building a thick layer of DCE/RPC, SMB, Kerberos etc
around a simple LDAP server, but what we ended up building was a thin
layer around a complex LDAP server, implemented in terms of a massive
module 'stack' that we call dsdb. 

Samba's modules use private (ldb_private.h) the semi-private (the
ldb_module.h header) bits of LDB and depend very strictly on all the
various bugs we fix in there, hence all the strict version stuff.

I would just note that we should ensure that the ldb library is
published as a public library, otherwise it may have the wrong symbol
versions I think.

Andrew Bartlett

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