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

[Matthijs Mohlmann]

On Aug 17, 2010, at 12:24 AM, Adam D. Barratt wrote:

> 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

That's true. I think that is something for after the release of squeeze.

Regards,

Matthijs Möhlmann