[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#759596: slapd: suffix is not guaranteed to be unique

[Ryan Tandy]

Package: slapd
Version: 2.4.39-1

Peder Stray reported in LP: #1362481 that the upgrade fails on his 
system, which is set up as per the Syncrepl Proxy pattern from the admin 
guide [1]; that is, it has a disk backend and an ldap backend, both 
hosting the same suffix, and the latter is hidden.

[1] http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/replication.html#Syncrepl%20Proxy

Generally, I think he's right that we need to consider each database in 
turn as a (suffix, directory) pair, instead of trying to map each suffix 
to a directory. I also think that ideally we should use -nN instead of 
-b $suffix, to remove the ambiguity in this case.