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

[Ryan Tandy]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 06:47:22PM +0100, Floris Bos wrote:
>That's pretty confusing as well.

Yeah :/

>You are right, in this case it only seems to have copied configuration 
>to dump_database_destdir
>While the documentation suggests that directory is meant to dump the 
>whole database to on upgrades:

Right. The dumping machinery kicks in on upgrade - not on reconfigure. 
The fact it does dump (as well as copy) the config is a side-effect and 
not really intentional (but hopefully harmless).