On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 09:12:01PM +0200, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > On Friday 03 September 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 03:25:13PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > Then I don't think this should be RC. Downgrading to important, > > > leaving it to the maintainers to close or handle as they wish. > > > > Right, and I don't know of a good way to handle this. We certainly > > don't want to go back and re-upload openldap built against db4.7 > > just to do this transition. > > > > Stefan, can you unpack the slapcat from testing's slapd package > > onto your system, and try the upgrade again?
> Yes, downgrading to 2.4.17-2.1 and upgrading to 2.4.23-4 worked. > Somehow I assumed that the upgrade process required a running slapd, > but this is not the case. > I still think that the info how to recover from such a problem should > be in README.Debian, though. I'm more concerned with fixing our packaging so that the maintainers don't accidentally upload such a broken package in the future. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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