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Re: heimdal and ldap



>>>>> "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
    Russ> only 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.
-- 
Brian May <bam@snoopy.debian.net>



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