[Pkg-openldap-devel] OpenLDAP 2.4.7

[Russ Allbery]

Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:25:02PM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

>> Oracle has not released anything newer than 4.6.21, so I assume nothing
>> has been done to address the issue.  Howard informed them of the
>> problem, but who knows where that's gone.

> So should we move the Debian packages to db4.6 trusting that this will
> get fixed, or should we stay at db4.2 until it is?  Is this issue severe
> enough that we should be unwilling to ship an OpenLDAP linked against a
> BDB that has the yield issue?

I think it's a tradeoff between speed and getting rid of db4.2.  I don't
have a good feel for how important getting rid of db4.2 is.  My guess is
that most Debian OpenLDAP installations don't care enough about speed to
really notice, but some will and will notice a lot.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>