[Pkg-openldap-devel] OpenLDAP upload to unstable.

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 17:03 +0200, Matthijs Mohlmann wrote:
> On Aug 14, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 23:44 +0200, Matthijs Möhlmann wrote:
> > +               # TODO: Now we are doing something that is not allowed by policy but it
> > +               # has to be done.
> > +               sed -i -e "s|^SLAPD_CONF=.*|SLAPD_CONF=\"${SLAPD_CONF}\"|" /etc/default/slapd
> > 
> > That comment immediately make me think "uh oh", although I don't
> > currently have a better alternative to suggest that wouldn't leave
> > people with a broken system after the upgrade.
> >
> A broken system is worse then a policy violation in this case. A solution to
> this problem is to move the etc/default/slapd file to usr/share/slapd and let
> ucf handle this.

Would this not just replace the policy violation with giving users the
chance to break their own system by rejecting the proposed update to the
configuration? :)

Regards,

Adam