[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#305838: Won't support 2.0 upgrades with malformed telephone numbers

[Russ Allbery]

Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:59:56PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> This bug was about upgrades from 2.0 (before strict schema checking)
>> failing on telephoneNumber entries of " - ".  At this point, I don't
>> think there's any point in revisiting this.  All OpenLDAP versions
>> within the version range for which it's reasonable to support upgrades
>> have enforced schema checking and any databases will have been fixed by
>> now.

> Yes, I had a look at this bug when I was doing my own triaging round - I
> left it open only because fix_ldif is still being shipped in the
> package.  I think the right way to fix this bug is to kick fix_ldif and
> supporting code out of the package, now that the transition it was made
> for is over.

Works for me and closes #305824 and #300287 as well.  I'll go ahead and do
that.  I disbelieve in the existence of databases that really need that
any more, and if we're wrong, we can always resurrect the code.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>