[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#499560: Bug#499560: Bug#499560: OpenLDAP 2.4.11 declared stable by upstream

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:41:26PM +0200, Peter Mogensen wrote:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Peter Mogensen <apm at one.com> writes:

> >> OpenLDAP has decalred 2.4.11 "stable" which means 2.3.x will be 
> >> deprecated.

> > There are no 2.3 packages in Debian.

> Correct, but it could make upgrade to 2.4 more relevant for 2.3 users, 
> putting them in the same situation as users doing new installs of 2.4.10.

> >> Lenny shipping with 2.4.10 with BDB 4.2 will leave even new
> >> installations with a hard upgrade path to later versions of slapd.

> > Er, why?  It's the standard dump and restore upgrade path that slapd
> > always has, so far as I can see.

> yes, slapcat/slapadd was recommended.
> Which would be understandable if you upgraded from 2.3->2.4, but not 
> from 2.4.10->2.4.11+.
> The point being that new installations of 2.4 should not use BDB4.2 to 
> avoid downtime when upgradring to later stable 2.4 version.

Switching the BDB backend used for OpenLDAP in lenny is not a change to be
made at the eleventh hour.  Given the rate of change of db formats for
OpenLDAP, and the rate of Debian releases, I think users should expect to do
a database dump and reload for every Debian release - so I don't think that
weighs very heavily at all.

Once squeeze opens I will tackle the question of getting OpenLDAP off of
db4.2 with relish, but this ought to be considered a 'wontfix' for lenny.

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