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Re: Debian OpenLDAP is Not Dead Yet



On 03/17/2014 05:54 PM, Joshua Schaeffer wrote:
Not to beat a dead horse and not to bash on Debian (personally Debian is
the only distro I use), but to further help other people make a decision as
to which version they should/may want to install: the slapd package
included with Debian or the latest version from source:

The Debian community is fully aware of the numerous issues with their
OpenLDAP package and acknowledges that it needs work, they have also been
asking for help with OpenLDAP for some time (1878 days according to their
"work-needing packages" list):

openldap (#512360), requested 1878 days ago
      Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
      Reverse Depends: 389-admin 389-ds-base 389-ds-base-dev
        389-ds-base-libs 389-dsgw adcli alpine am-utils aolserver4-nsldap
        apache2-bin (200 more omitted)
      Installations reported by Popcon: 163954

As the entry specifies bug #512360 in the BTS gives additional
information about what work is needed:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=512360


Thanks,

Josh



On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>wrote:

--On Monday, March 17, 2014 9:00 AM +0100 Ulrich Windl <
Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:

  Dieter Klünter<dieter@dkluenter.de> schrieb am 14.03.2014 um 21:50 in

Nachricht
<20140314215009.33f39aee@pink.avci.de>:

Am Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:27:10 +0100
schrieb "Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>:

  >>> Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com> schrieb am 13.03.2014 um
19:03 in
Nachricht <34E9E18C6D0A7C6D92162635@[192.168.1.46]>:
--On Thursday, March 13, 2014 1:56 PM -0500 espeake@oreillyauto.com
wrote:

Version 2.4.31-1+nmu2

Plain syncrepl.

As I said I hope to be upgrading to the latest version in the next
couple of months.  Right now I need to get through this problem
the best I can.

Known issue with 2.4.31.  Solution is to upgrade and stop using the
crap shipped by Debian.  The LTB project now has a deb repository
for their builds, I'd advise investigating switching to using it.


A: >> One could also file a bug report for Debian, I guess.



B: > Rubbish, have you ever seen a Debian or Ubuntu maintainer posting to

this mailing list?


C: > Actually there is no qualified Debian or Ubuntu maintainer.

What has A to do with B, and how can you conclude C from A or B?


B obviously has to do with A.  A qualified maintainer would maintain some
presence with the upstream project.

C you can conclude from years of interacting with the Debian project, like
I have.


--Quanah


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Looks like we should not give up on Debian quite yet...I just saw this for the unstable release...


Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:27:31 -0700
Source: openldap
Binary: slapd slapd-smbk5pwd ldap-utils libldap-2.4-2 libldap-2.4-2-dbg libldap2-dev slapd-dbg
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 2.4.39-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian OpenLDAP Maintainers <pkg-openldap-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Description:
 ldap-utils - OpenLDAP utilities
 libldap-2.4-2 - OpenLDAP libraries
 libldap-2.4-2-dbg - Debugging information for OpenLDAP libraries
 libldap2-dev - OpenLDAP development libraries
 slapd      - OpenLDAP server (slapd)
 slapd-dbg  - Debugging information for the OpenLDAP server (slapd)
 slapd-smbk5pwd - Keeps Samba and Kerberos passwords in sync within slapd.
Closes: 725824 738641
Changes:
 openldap (2.4.39-1) unstable; urgency=low
...

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