On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 08:29:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > openldap2.3 is still building against db4.2 at upstream's specific > recommendation. According to upstream, db4.5 (and db4.4) have regressions > from db4.2 in supporting OpenLDAP. > > They have hopes for db4.6, once it's finally released. > > This doesn't necessarily mean that we shouldn't switch to db4.5 anyway, > depending on the severity of the regressions, but I wanted to note in the > bug log that there was a reason why this hadn't been done other than > simple lack of time. > This is something that we on the cyrus-sasl2 team are also dealing with. I think that what has held us back so far from going out on a limb is the integral nature of cyrus-sasl2 for most systems. I would argue that openldap is in a similar situation, since it is often used as the source of authentication information. Any breakage there has the potential to be catastrophic. Of course, I am doubtful that db4.2 will be supported for an another release cycle. It is rather old at this point, after all.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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