[Pkg-samba-maint] Help needed with TDB move for 4.0 packages

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 07:57:59AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Andrew Bartlett (abartlet at samba.org):

> > > I think the second test might be a bit overzealous. These files are in
> > > the "wrong" place since versions that are much older than those in
> > > wheezy and even squeeze and we (Debian) don't support upgrading from
> > > anything older than the last stable (actually supporting upgrades from
> > > oldstable should be enough)

> > Do we have to support downgrades in any meaningful way?  (ie, do I have
> > to script the reverse)

> No, we never support downgrades in packages (Steve might correct me if
> there are corner cases I forget about but I don't see any).

dpkg supports downgrading, but there's certainly no expectation that
maintainers will expend effort on un-applying upgrade changes when an admin
installs an older version of the package.  So long as the maintainer scripts
are written to be idempotent, the worst case is that if things are broken
after downgrade the admin can just upgrade again.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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