<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 30, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Steve Langasek <<a href="mailto:vorlon@debian.org">vorlon@debian.org</a>> writes:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">FWIW, one of the things we're hoping to accomplish for Ubuntu Intrepid<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(due out in approximately the same timeframe as Lenny) is to switch the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">packaging completely over to cn=config so that we can straightforwardly<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">solve the need for third-party packages to hook into a local LDAP<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">server. I would of course love to see this packaging work take place in<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Debian unstable at the same time, but that of course depends on you guys<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">being willing to commit to such an ambitious change in the given<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">timeframe. Howard Chu's opinion was that we're officially "not insane"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to attempt such a switch given the current upstream state; what say you?<br></blockquote><br>This is absolutely the right thing to do for the long run. However, I'm<br>not sure that we have enough manpower to stabilize such a change before<br>the lenny release, and I wouldn't want to release something that's<br>half-broken for lenny. If we can just reuse the Ubuntu work and you *do*<br>have enough manpower, and the Debian release team is comfortable with the<br>schedule (while the library isn't changing, we'd still be uploading new<br>versions of it with slapd, so they'd have to be unblocking that), I'm good<br>with this idea.<br><br>-- <br>Russ Allbery (<a href="mailto:rra@debian.org">rra@debian.org</a>) <<a href="http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/">http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/</a>><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>Do you know which persons are responsible for OpenLDAP in Ubuntu ? Then we can </div><div>start to coordinate this update. I would idd love to have cn=config in place.</div><div><br></div><div>I've done a standard upgrade from Etch and that seems to go fine. I'll check it later on </div><div>with a directory with around 12.000 entries.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Matthijs Mohlmann</div><div><br></div></body></html>