[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#888440: "dpkg-reconfigure slapd" fails if backup directory already exists

[Floris Bos]

Package: slapd
Version: 2.4.44+dfsg-5+deb9u1


Hi,

Currently "dpkg-reconfigure slapd" wants to move the old database 
directory to /var/backups
However this fails if there already exists such a directory in 
/var/backups from a previous run.

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# DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive dpkg-reconfigure slapd
   Backing up /etc/ldap/slapd.d in 
/var/backups/slapd-2.4.44+dfsg-5+deb9u1... done.
   Moving old database directory to /var/backups:

   Backup path /var/backups/unknown-2.4.44+dfsg-5+deb9u1.ldapdb exists. 
Giving up...
==

I am not seeing any easy option to prevent this from happening.
There is a preseed option (slapd/dump_database_destdir) to change the 
backup directory the database dump goes to, but that doesn't seem to 
affect the directory the old folder is moved to.
Nor an option to simply not move the thing, but delete it. We already 
have a dump of it, right?


Yours sincerely,

Floris Bos