Since there has been work made on bug 1579219 for moving this dependency to Evergreen side of things, I agree with Jason and will go ahead and mark this bug invalid for 2.5 alpha.
However, we do need to decide if we want to not just move the dependency for OpenSRF 2.5 series but backport it to the existing 2.4 series and also change the core dependencies for currently supported Evergreen 2.9 and 2.10 series; because this issue will continue to affect new installations where Debian Jessie or Ubuntu Trusty are used.
Since there has been work made on bug 1579219 for moving this dependency to Evergreen side of things, I agree with Jason and will go ahead and mark this bug invalid for 2.5 alpha.
However, we do need to decide if we want to not just move the dependency for OpenSRF 2.5 series but backport it to the existing 2.4 series and also change the core dependencies for currently supported Evergreen 2.9 and 2.10 series; because this issue will continue to affect new installations where Debian Jessie or Ubuntu Trusty are used.