Michael Ströder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And how about OpenLDAP libs and gnutls? Yes, I'm nagging here, but > because of very good reasons.
I don't see it as nagging at all, you're perfectly right not to support modifications you're not comfortable with. I hope we provide a reasonable level of support ourselves, both on this list and through bugs.debian.org. To provide some context, OpenLDAP 2.1 client libraries were not quite as ancient at the time the current Debian release was frozen in late 2006. A newer version didn't make it in time due to problems with symbol versioning -- because of the large number of libraries and plugins linked with libldap, a binary could end up simultaneously using code compiled with different LDAP ABIs, and promptly crash. The next Debian release (due out later this year) will use libldap 2.4 with versioned symbols. I'm not sure which python-ldap package you were looking at, but the one we released with, 2.2.0-3, has a 19-line patch for OpenLDAP 2.1. Later development versions used a 130-line patch, but none of these were released for production use. The patch is a currently a no-op, and I intend to fully remove it before we release. As for GnuTLS, the main reason it's used is the unfortunate incompatibility between the OpenSSL license and the GPL [1]. I'm not aware of stability or security issues in current versions. [1] <http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html> Cheers, Matej ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
