[Pkg-samba-maint] ldb version, again

[Mathieu Parent]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 11:15 AM Michael Tokarev <mjt at tls.msk.ru> wrote:
>
> 06.04.2022 12:05, Mathieu Parent wrote:
> ..
> > otherwise, what about:
> > ldb_2:2.5.1~really2.5.0-1+samba4.16.0
>
> We do not actually need to enforce correct version
> sequence when moving from experimental to unstable.
> We can not upload new version to experimental which
> is lower than current version in experimental.  But
> we can upload new version to unstable which is lower
> than the version in experimental.
>
> This is inconvenient for the ones who installed the
> version from experimental, but that's about it. These
> brave souls are expected to be able to deal with the
> breakage :)  The only thing - I hope - that'll be
> needed is to install libldb2 packages manually from
> unstable. Or if you use samba-dsdb-modules (which
> now depend on the exact version of libldb2), you'll
> probably have to install the samba package manually
> together with libldb2.
>
> I hope this is an easy enough inconvenience which
> does not warrant messing with the "really-other"
> versions number.  Or just for this very issue, for
> this very version of ldb, we can temporarily add an
> extra suffix, so it becomes
>
>    2:2.5.0+smb-1+samba4.0.16
>
> (the +smb sorts after +samba so everything's ok wrt
> the sort order, but we'll have to remember to remove
> this suffix for 2.5.1).
>
> For now I comited the variant which might require manual
> intervention when "upgrading" from experimental to unstable
> as outlined above. Do you prefer another solution?

I'm OK with this solution.

-- 
Mathieu