vorlon@debian.org wrote:

Full_Name: Steve Langasek Version: 2.4.17 OS: Debian URL: http://bugs.debian.org/546885 Submission from: (NULL) (66.93.39.86)

Debian bug #546885 reports a problem with the Debian package of slapd aborting because it's running against an older version of libsasl than the one it was built against. Distribution packaging systems have provisions for declaring versioned dependencies when necessary, slapd should not have a blanket rule that assumes preceding versions of libsasl are incompatible:

Maybe that's true for Debian today, but if there was a blanket rule that this is always safe on all OS distros, we would not have needed to write this code in the first place.

• if two versions of libsasl are incompatible but this has not been declared by

way of an soname change, this is a bug in the library that should be forwarded to the libsasl upstream, not papered over in slapd

And we have done so, but we still have to defend against people running older versions of libsasl that haven't been corrected.

• the version check assumes that running against an *older* libsasl than the one

built against is a problem, but running against a *newer* libsasl is not, when I don't see any reason that should be the case.

patch to remove this version check follows; it has been applied to the Debian openldap package.

Though it goes against our usual desire to minimize distro-specific patch maintenance, I think in this case I have to recommend that you continue to carry this patch on your side.