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Bugfix: Clean up error handling in LDAP plugin

• handle referrals in search results
• better error reporting when using incorrect base DN
• refactor reporting of LDAP exceptions
• replace old-style % operator with format()
• Debian package build: fix dependencies for python-ldap

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