On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 07:48:33PM +0200, Michael Ströder wrote: > Ryan Lovett wrote: > > We're using the versions that ship with any Ubuntu LTS. > > Can you please explain what that means for the Python versions available > in the Ubuntu repository? http://packages.ubuntu.com/python-ldap gives a good overview. LTS means "long term support" where Ubuntu pledges to support the release for 5 years. (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS) There have been two LTS releases, dapper (6.06) and hardy (8.04) where
http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/python-ldap which is 2.0.4. http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/python-ldap which is 2.3.1. > I vaguely remember that Ubuntu also uses Debian packages (please correct > me if I'm wrong). That is correct, Ubuntu is a Debian-based distro: http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/Debian > And since there were Debian packages heavily patched in May 2007 to still > work with ancient OpenLDAP libs 2.1 and Debian links OpenLDAP to gnutls > (which is insecure and sometimes crashes) I don't give any support for > their python-ldap packages. Even the API might not be compatible... On an amd64 hardy machine: $ ldd /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_ldap.so linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007ffff1dfe000) libldap_r-2.4.so.2 => /usr/lib/libldap_r-2.4.so.2 (0x00007f4ee97f2000) liblber-2.4.so.2 => /usr/lib/liblber-2.4.so.2 (0x00007f4ee95e4000) libsasl2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libsasl2.so.2 (0x00007f4ee93ca000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f4ee91ae000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f4ee8e4c000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f4ee8c35000) libgnutls.so.13 => /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.13 (0x00007f4ee89b1000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f4ee87ad000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f4ee9c63000) libtasn1.so.3 => /usr/lib/libtasn1.so.3 (0x00007f4ee859c000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f4ee8385000) libgcrypt.so.11 => /lib/libgcrypt.so.11 (0x00007f4ee8137000) libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib/libgpg-error.so.0 (0x00007f4ee7f33000) I'm sure the gnutls folks would welcome your bug reports about its security and stability. All in your abundant spare time of course. :) https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?group=gnutls http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/bugs.html Ryan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Python-LDAP-dev mailing list Python-LDAP-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/python-ldap-dev
