[Pkg-openldap-devel] Notes on the (pending) openldap backport
Luca Bruno
lucab at debian.org
Mon Dec 1 10:08:42 UTC 2014
Dear backporters,
I'm currently in the process of building+testing+sponsoring a
shiny new openldap backport, courtesy of Ryan Tandy.
As the backport queue is now under manual policing, I'd like to drop
here a couple of notes for reviewers regarding this package:
* it's NEW, but it has been requested by several users, either
via BTS (#685748) or on ML[0].
* it is the same version which is going to be shipped in Jessie. We think it
is a good way to have more people testing the upgrade path to the same
version in Jessie.
* it uses newer crypto libraries (gnutls28/nettle). This is because there are
some known issues with wheezy ones, see BTS #368297.
* it uses older libdb5.1. Unfortunately libdb5.3 has not been backported, and
I'm not confident in doing it at this point. I am not aware of any known
issue with it, though.
* it embeds liblmdb. This is a known issue also in jessie/sid (BTS #750023),
and the security team has been notified about this[1].
* it has a weird version: "2.4.31+really2.4.40-3~bpo70+1".
This had to be done in order to avoid screwing the pre/postinst db-upgrading
mechanisms in Jessie, which rely on package version to detect DB to be
upgraded.
I know it is a bit hackish, I'm sorry for that.
Pending package is currently at http://mentors.debian.net/package/openldap
That said, I hope it can get quickly out of the queue.
[0] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-openldap-devel/2014-November/005962.html
[1] https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/secure-testing/data/embedded-code-copies?r1=30023&r2=30405
Cheers, Luca
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