DA, OpenLDAP 2.1, Debian

Hi,

I'm sending this mail from the point of view of the Debian maintainer of
Directory Administrator.

Currently DA has its last version (1.5.1) both in Debian unstable (sid) and
in Debian Testing (sarge), while packages for woody are kindly provided and
maintained by Christof Meerwald.

This situation makes sense: woody is quite different (from a debian policy
point of view) from sid/sarge and probably backporting the current source
would require backporting at least debhelper, if not something else.

Anyway, as we all know, DA 1.5.1 is incompatible with OpenLDAP 2.1 (which 
is also in testing), unless one throws away the schemacheck feature. (Not a
nice thing). This, for debian, is not of great impact: I expect that most
users will use an unstable workstation to manage a server which runs woody,
or a woody workstation with unofficial .debs to manage a server with the
woody version of OpenLDAP installed.

This is going to change quite soon: our beloved release manager has posted
an article (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0308/msg00010.html)
in which he states that the project is aiming its next release for
December, the 1st (one year and a half after the release of woody).

Since from that moment on OpenLDAP 2.1 will be the default one, as shipped
by Debian, and also most debian users will have whatever version of DA
Debian stable will ship, I'm writing here to ask what the release plans for
the next DA are.

Reading the article it seems that this september will be the last chance to
upload a new version of DA and make it go into sarge: do you think it will
be possible to do this, somehow, and so to ship Debian sarge with a version
of DA compatible with it's version of OpenLDAP, and maybe also with its
samba (which is currently 3.0.0beta2-1)?

After the stable release we can obviously keep the current pratice of
maintaining an updated version in unstable/testing, and a backport for
stable, but since it won't have the same visibility I think that releasing
a good version with sarge may be a good goal.


Thanks,

Guido

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