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

[Ryan Tandy]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 06:05:44PM +0100, Floris Bos wrote:
>If you can guarantee us that the name of the folder we would need to 
>delete is always /var/backups/unknown-2.4.44+dfsg-5+deb9u1.ldapdb 
>-even in future package updates- that is a possibility.
>However would prefer not to make assumptions like that :-)

Please don't. I do intend to fix at least the "unknown" part of that, 
sooner or later. ;)

Can you tell me more about your use case here? It sounds like you have 
something automated, but in that case why are there multiple reconfigure 
runs involved (or any reconfigure at all)?