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

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 05:52:39PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:

> > there was some concern about them bringing in completely inappropriate
> > Depends (like, the -dev depending on *every -dev package underneath*,
> > even if not used directly), and the problems they cause when they're not
> > *always* there (ie: they exist at some levels but not at others and
> > libtool falls apart because of it).

> We aren't shipping a slapd-dev package, so -dev dependencies can't be an
> issue here.  We also don't care about opening these particular .la files
> with libtool, they should only be opened with libltdl.  Are there any known
> problems with libltdl3 traversing .la files looking for trouble?

> I guess we don't have a solid answer to that, and probably should do some
> testing.

I've just tested.  Filling dependency_libs in /usr/lib/ldap/back_bdb.la with
garbage has no effect on slapd's ability to load it using
'moduleload back_bdb.la'.

I'll go ahead and add the .la files back to the package.

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