tags 392747 pending tags 409923 pending thanks On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:49:42AM +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > You downgraded this bug. That's your call. But I do think this should be > fixed for etch.
> I think it is unacceptable that an upgrade of such a critical pacakage > (for systems that use it) silently fails. It would be better to have > proper support for upgrading a database with the ldbm backend, but I > understand it is a little late for that. The least you can do is add a > note to prepare people for the disaster to happen. > I just skimmed through the buglist and I think this is actually a > duplicate of #392747: slapd: failed upgrade with ldbm backend The replay > form Matthijs seems to suggest that there is some support for upgrading > the database. Well apparently that is broken, it didn't happen for me, > neither for Filip. Bug #392747 shows debconf information indicating the user refused to allow the migration from ldbm to bdb, so yes, the upgrade failed. Your own bug report didn't include any debconf information, so I don't know why the upgrade failed for you. But there most certainly *is* a note telling users that ldbm is broken. I've taken a look at the package, and apparently the changelog claim that this happens in the preinst is false because the code was never added to the right place. I hate our slapd maintainer scripts. :P I've committed a fix for that particular bug, but that still doesn't explain why you claim you received *no* indication it would break. Even if it only happens in the postinst, you should be prompted about the fact that ldbm is dead. I've reviewed all of the code here, and I don't see any bugs -- you would have to explicitly refuse the conversion to end up in the state you describe. That's not a release-critical bug. There also is a NEWS.Debian file in place in the package, which documents this exact issue -- but the file name in the source package is wrong, so it's not getting installed in the binary package. I've now fixed this in svn as well. I'm not planning to upload this anytime soon, though. Maybe someone else on the team has time to do so. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
