Quanah Gibson-Mount writes:
The distro operators are generally interested in one thing -- The LDAP C api, and the libraries provided by OpenLDAP. Using the software to actually run a slapd server is not something they particularly worry about. The only bugs they tend to backport are those ones involving a security vulnerability. (...)
Might help for that problem to make --disable-slapd the default for configure (and ask "slow" vendors to keep it that way). Then we instead get problems with users who have both preinstalled LDAP in /usr/ and self-compiled LDAP elsewhere... Or support linking slapd with the installed libraries as well as with new-built ones, if new server + old library tends to be better than old server + equally old library.