[Pkg-openldap-devel] Serious error in the packaging of OpenLDAP 2.3

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:00 PM -0800 Steve Langasek 
<vorlon at debian.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 02:22:32PM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>> Although Debian changed OpenLDAP 2.3 to build things modularly, the
>> slapd  package that is built does not appear to contain the *.la files,
>> making it  impossible for end users to actually load the modules.  This
>> needs to be  fixed before this is a useful package.
>
> Have you tested this?  .la files should not be required for loading
> anything; and I think if it were impossible to load any of the backends,
> we would have heard about it by now.

Using the .la files is the documented and supported method for loading the 
backends.  If debian is going to choose to not ship them, then debian needs 
to (a) note this major modification in behavior, and (b) update all the 
related man pages and other documentation.  I think it makes a lot more 
sense to support the documented behavior.

See:

<http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/slapdconf2.html>

for example.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
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