Howard Chu wrote:

This would imply that the error is isolated to slapcat. Since you claim the problem did not occur in an earlier revision,

Well, that's not sure anymore since I could simply not have observed it before because the slapcat'ed LDIF was always in tree order. Not sure.

As said. The difference in data1 (messes up) and data2 (works) is that data2 is in tree-order.

Ciao, Michael.