Torsten Schlabach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just checked; interesting enough the package libsasl2-modules-ldap > depends on the package libldap2, which is the ancient version 2.1.17 of > OpenLDAP. > > There is a package libldap-2.3-0 in Debian Etch. It does not replace > libldap2 but installs next to it, with seperate filenames. So installing > that will not make anything depending on libldap2 use 2.3 instead of 2.1 > stuff, which I guess is by design. > > So I wonder if the package libsasl2-modules-ldap should rather have a > dependency to libldap-2.3-0 instead of libldap2?
The OpenLDAP library situation is what it is because of licensing problems, which have now been resolved (by way of adding GnuTLS support to OpenLDAP) in OpenLDAP 2.4. OpenLDAP 2.4 will take over the dev packages and will eventually obsolete the old 2.1 libraries, and will be uploaded probably within a week or so. So just hang in there for a bit and then you'll be able to switch to a newer version. > Bonus question: I cannot find a libldap-2.3-dev or libldap-2.3-0-dev. Is > that a mistake. Is that a bug which should be filed against the > openldap-2.3 source package? No, it was intentional for as long as those libraries had to be linked with OpenSSL, since linking them into other Debian packages would create licensing problems with GPL code. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
