https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8861
--- Comment #4 from Quanah Gibson-Mount quanah@openldap.org --- (In reply to Howard Chu from comment #3)
Sounds more like the back-ldap manpage is wrong. The use of "ldaps" is implicit in the URI, so there's no point in supporting it here and it should be an error to allow it here. In particular it makes no sense to allow it here if it differs from the URI.
Ok, although that doesn't entirely answer the rest of my question (i.e., about tls_reqcert etc missing from back-meta).
Ironically I would note you're literally the person who added the "ldaps" option to back-ldap.
a6a8fb514b (Howard Chu 2007-01-08 23:36:24 +0000 511) { BER_BVC( "ldaps" ), LDAP_BACK_F_TLS_LDAPS },