[Pkg-openldap-devel] Status of openldap 2.3.19

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Sun Feb 19 00:48:19 UTC 2006


On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 11:00:28PM +0100, Matthijs Mohlmann wrote:
> At this moment we have still openldap 2.1.30 in Debian. This is not
> really a recommended situation and I (we) really want to move that also
> to the current openldap stable release (2.3.19). The goal is to have an
> up to date gnutls patch for the current openldap release before etch
> releases

A worthwhile goal.  Is anyone in Debian working on this? :)

On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 03:41:45PM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

> Also, Debian cannot move forward on its OpenLDAP release until OpenLDAP 
> supports GnuTLS.  I'm currently working on having Stanford fund part of 
> that work in conjunction with another institution that would like to see 
> the GnuTLS support in OpenLDAP as well.  This unfortunately involves work 
> with GnuTLS as well as OpenLDAP, since GnuTLS lacks a bit of the 
> functionality necessary for the integration with OpenLDAP.  Of course, any 
> other groups wishing to contribute to the cost of having the support added 
> could only help...

Is there a summary somewhere of the missing features in GNUTLS?  I'm not
offering to pony up any money, but I can certainly see whether we can snag
someone from the community to work on this if the specifics are available.

Likewise, a summary of the problems with the existing GNUTLS patch may be of
help.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon at debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/
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