Re: heimdal and ldap
Brian May <bam@snoopy.debian.net> writes:
>>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> Russ> Correct. This is because the new version of OpenLDAP cannot
> Russ> be linked against GnuTLS (our local patch is already
> Russ> problematic in 2.1 and broke in later versions), so it can
> Russ> only build with OpenSSL, and we can't release general
> Russ> libraries for other Debian packages to build against with only
> Russ> OpenSSL because of licensing issues with GPL-covered
> Russ> applications that use OpenLDAP.
> In this case, was there really any need to change the location of the
> socket from /var/run/ldapi to /var/run/slapd/ldapi?
> If it wasn't for this change, the old libraries would work fine.
> Even a backward compatibility symlink would help.
A backward compatibility symlink seems like a reasonable idea to me. Is
that already what was proposed in the bug? (I'm vaguely ancillarily
involved in OpenLDAP packaging but am not really a core member of the
group.)
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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