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Re: OpenLDAP upload to unstable.



On Aug 14, 2010, at 11:47 AM, Adam D. Barratt wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 13:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
>>> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 22:48 +0200, Matthijs Möhlmann wrote:
>> 
>>>> The changes I made in svn:
>>>> - Move to slapd.conf to slapd.d (upgrade path provided and tested)
>> 
>>> I must admit that this change makes me a little uneasy at first glance.
>>> I may just be paranoid though. :-)
> [...]
>> Ubuntu has already done this transition, although that's a mixed precedent
>> since it didn't go entirely smoothly there.
> 
> Presumably this means we have the advantage of knowing the problems
> involved and being able to avoid them or at least reduce their impact?
> 

That's correct, I've merged the scripts from ubuntu.

> Does the move to using slapd.d imply changes to other packages, or is
> this a transition in the "move from state A to state B" sense rather
> than the Debian "lots of packages changing at the same time and making
> the release team cry" sense?
> 

No it doesn't, it is a change specific to slapd (the OpenLDAP server) and
this has nothing to do with the library shipped with openldap.

> Regards,
> 
> Adam


Regards,

Matthijs Möhlmann


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