[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#711469: Can we have libslapi-dev back please:

[Florian Schlichting]

Hi Steve,

in December 2007 you split out slapi-dev from libldap2-dev, only to
"temporarily drop" slapi-dev a month later:


commit 0c845e83a77f940a29fbd51f4a208dc9767529bb
Author: Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org>
Date:   Thu Dec 20 09:52:23 2007 +0000

    * Split slapi dev support into a new libslapi-dev package, as this is
      unrelated to libldap; and drop libslapi.a since it would be insane to try
      to statically link a dynamically-loaded slapi plugin.


commit cb91aaa489f1dbe7b2e5d8025487f7abe0729888
Author: Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 21 14:39:36 2008 +0000

    * Temporarily drop slapi-dev from the package to get through NEW; this
      functionality should be readded later, either by restoring the slapi-dev
      package or by moving it to libldap2-dev, depending on the outcome of
      discussion with the ftp-masters.


Do you remember the outcome of discussion with the ftp-masters? What was
the point of contention?

I need slapi-plugin.h for a $work project and would like to help move
this issue to either solution, reinstating slapi-dev or reintegration
into libldap2-dev.

Florian