On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: Hrm, I've been swamped with work, and have neglected most of my packages for far too long (though some intentional), I'll give the idea some thought, though, OpenLDAP is *very* critical to both my home and work setup !
The first step would be to reach consensus on removing from our archive the traditional LDAP NSS and PAM modules and replacing them with the ldapd versions, which talk to a system daemon over a protocol rather than pull all the libraries into the same executable.
Oh Hell yeah, I've been neglecting libnss-ldap and libpam-ldap whilst investigating and moving all my usage to Arthur's excellent nss-pam-ldapd package ... It now has enough support that I've been trying to find a 'nice way' to ask for the deprecation and/or removal of the older and very problematical PADL packages. The early boot issues are gone, as are shutdown (due to bash/library) issues, proper filtering and attribute request, password changing works now - krb5 support seems to work, ...
Once that's been done, the problem of getting license exceptions for all other GPL packages that link directly to OpenLDAP might be tractable. (Or it might not; I haven't done any of the necessary investigative work.)
Ditto, being stuck between idiology, and needing to actually get my work done can be a rough spot - it becomes too easy to blame others for work I've neglected getting involved in :( -- Rick Nelson <_Anarchy_> Argh.. who's handing out the paper bags 8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.2.00.1003201614300.2...@hygvzn-guhyr.pnirva.bet
