Comment 30 for bug 16317

Hi Toni,

On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 04:11:48PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote:
> fwiw, I have 2.2.23 with ldbm backend running w/o a hitch on OpenBSD,
> but breaking down completely on Debian "almost" sarge.

Interesting. Which OpenLDAP version are you using?

> Esp. I can browse the directory and find whatever I want, but don't see
> these same records when I use "search" (with gq or ldapsearch, that
> is).

Sucky.

> Also, looking at http://www.openldap.org/software/release/changes.html
> suggests that a number of important bugs have been killed between
> 2.2.23 and now, although that might be too late for sarge.

Hmm, good question. It shouldn't be too hard to just build the new
upstream version but I wonder if our release manager would really like
this.

> Btw, aren't there any regression test suites to run before promoting
> such packages, and/or can we probably move to having the debian/* stuff
> in a publicly accessible CVS or something (I prefer ARCH), to be able
> to recreate older packages at any date (analogous to the BSD ports
> system)?

Look here:

 http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-openldap/openldap/debian/

Greetings

 Torsten