This bug (273440) appears to have been associated with some sdb related bugs. I have unmerged the DLZ and SDB bugs.
The DLZ and sdb APIs are quite different. The `wontfix' tag was applied to the sdb related bug (due to lack of upstream support) but that is quite unrelated to the current state of DLZ. Upstream has enabled DLZ (just the dlopen variation) by default from 9.8.1 onwards, so this appears to be part of the Debian package too, without any explicit change in the packaging. * See upstream [RT #23467] and [RT #23629] The history of 273440 correctly points out the burden of extra dependencies if the legacy method of static linking for LDAP, etc, is used. However, there is now discussion about whether all the other DLZ variations will become plugins/shared objects, loaded by the DLZ dlopen method: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.dns.bind9.dlz/2201 It appears to be possible for 9.9.0 onwards. It would appear that anyone wanting those features may be able to contribute to that effort. Debian would then distribute each plugin as a standalone package, and the core bind9 daemon package wouldn't have a truckload of dependencies. However, if 9.9.0 is unlikely to eventuate before wheezy, then I personally feel that a bind9-dlz variation of the binary package is a good idea. There is already a dlz branch in the Debian VCS, this could be extended and then merged to provide a full bind9-dlz 9.8 package for wheezy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
