[Pkg-openldap-devel] Upload of OpenLDAP

[Matthijs Möhlmann]

On Mar 28, 2011, at 11:23 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:04:36PM +0200, Matthijs Möhlmann wrote:
>> Hello all,
> 
>> I'll upload a new version of OpenLDAP next wednesday. Please check
>> the packaging efforts I did for now.
> 
> I've been following along with the commit mails and everything looks good to
> me.  I don't think I'll have time for a more in-depth review before
> Wednesday.
> 

As long as someone is following my commits then it feels not standing completely
alone here.

>> After that I'll add an Architecture: all package for libldap-2.4-2
>> (libldap-common)
> 
> I guess this is for bug #330695, right?  Please note that the rationale
> given in that bug ("needed for multiarch") is somewhat out of date.  The
> pending multiarch implementation in dpkg includes support for reference
> counting of files shared between architectures, so both
> /usr/share/man/man5/ldap.conf.5.gz and /etc/ldap/ldap.conf are fine from a
> multiarch perspective.
> 
> They are still an issue wrt policy and library soname changes, but we've
> survived using Replaces: this far; I guess there's no real hurry to change
> but that it's fine if you want to split them out (as long as it's ok with
> the ftpmasters too).
> 
> If you do split it out, please make sure the new package has the field
> 'Multi-Arch: foreign' set so that it's fully multiarch-ready. :)

That's a nice addition then.

Regards,

Matthijs Möhlmann