[Pkg-openldap-devel] Backporting slapd out of jessie to wheezy possible?

[Ryan Tandy]

Hi,

On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 06:06:58PM +0100, Luca Bruno wrote:
>Speaking of that, I've also been asked at work for a wheezy bpo, so I'm
>interested on backporting/sponsoring it as soon as I have a timeslot for it.

I would very much like to see such a backport, as long as we can arrange 
for bdb/hdb format upgrades to be done properly.

Currently the databases[1] will be dumped and reloaded when upgrading to 
2.4.39 or later, because that's when the unstable package changed from 
db5.1 to db5.3. If we backport 2.4.40 to wheezy and build it against 
db5.1, we need to make sure the dump and reload still happens when the 
libdb version eventually changes, whenever that might be.

IMO the easiest solution is to backport db5.3 as well as openldap, and 
build 2.4.40 in wheezy-backports with the same libraries as it uses in 
jessie. I don't think we can modify the upgrade logic in jessie's 
package at this point.

What do you think? Is there a better way?

thanks,
Ryan

[1] including those that don't need it; #759597