Proposed Cyrus 2.3.13 branch

[Sven Mueller]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh schrieb:
> On Thu, 05 Mar 2009, Duncan Gibb wrote:
>> Duncan Gibb wrote:
>> HdMH> Pick whatever version of BDB is the most stable
>> HdMH> across the main arches [..]
>> HdMH> When in doubt, don't use anything openldap isn't using yet.
>>
>> As of last week, OpenLDAP in Sid is built against BDB 4.7.  I think a
>> Cyrus 2.3.x branch which aims to get into Squeeze should do the same.
>>
>> I'll test on Squeeze/amd64 and Squeeze/i386 as soon as possible.
>>
>> Apologies for the general lack of time devoted to this so far.
> 
> I will need Cyrus 2.3 in production where I work, so I probably will be able
> to hit the road back into active maintainership and help you with that.
> 
> But I still think we should *ASK* the openldap people why they switched to
> 4.7.  If the answer is "because it is better than the others", we should
> switch.  If it is "to find bugs earlier", we probably shouldn't.
> 
> The other problem to keep in mind is that we have to do a full API check
> when switching from a BDB version to another if Cyrus upstream didn't do
> that yet...

Just for the record: I recently was on an OpenLDAP tutorial and spoke to
one of the OpenLDAP developers (who was basically paid for this by
SuSE). He told me they still prefer 4.6 because they had stability
problems with 4.7 on some architectues. This information was a few
months old though, he said the team planned to re-evaluate soon.

Not sure about the actual validity of this though, the person left a
pretty mixed impression about his knowledge.

regards,
Sven