[Evolution] Bug#457374: evolution-exchange retired, future of the ldap_ntlm_bind patch

[Ryan Tandy]

Hi,

evolution-exchange has been retired in 2012, following the 3.4 release:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-hackers/2012-May/msg00052.html

It's also no longer in unstable: #722164.

In Fedora 19 and 20, evolution-data-server's dependency on the special
openldap-evolution-devel package has been dropped and it now links the
standard libldap:

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/evolution-data-server.git/log/?h=f20&qt=grep&q=ldap

Following that, I think we can move towards dropping it in Debian too.

Looking for ldap_ntlm_bind in codesearch.debian.net, it turns up in the
configure scripts of gconf and evolution but nowhere in their code.
(Also in fpc; I'll go and talk to the fpc maintainers next.)

Starting from a clean and up-to-date unstable chroot, I've rebuilt
openldap with the ntlm patch removed, and built gconf, evolution, and
evolution-data-server against that. All three built successfully and
appear to work, but I don't have access to any kind of Exchange server
so I can't actually test that feature.

If you agree that this patch is no longer needed, I'll reassign this bug
to openldap and follow it up from that end. (I guess the next ABI change
of openldap will probably be the 2.5 release; maybe that will be a
convenient time.)

thanks,
Ryan