Le 10/07/2017 à 23:12, Mike Gabriel a écrit : > Hi Johannes, > > On Mo 10 Jul 2017 16:35:47 CEST, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > >> Package: fusiondirectory >> Version: 1.0.19-1 >> Severity: grave >> Justification: renders package unusable >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> after upgrading my fusiondirectory installation from jessie (1.0.8.2-5) >> to stretch (1.0.19-1) the package has become practically unusable. >> (that's after adding workarounds for #854398 and ). > > Been there, had that... > >> e.g. trying to edit anything, i get the following on saving: >>> LDAP operation failed! >>> >>> [...] > >> no warning has been emitted when I upgraded from jessie to stretch. >> esp. no NEWS have indicated that anything could possibly go wrong. > > Indeed, this would have been a good idea. Sorry for that. The packaging > was done last minute unfortunately, so such delays got lost while being > "in a hurry".
yes my bad in part i forgot to add the README.Debian file >> there are some upstream notes in /usr/share/doc/fusiondirectory/docs/ >> about >> upgrading, indicating that this will require quite a lot of >> schema-changes and similar. >> however, the upstream notes are very incremental (e.g. 1.0.8.1 -> >> 1.0.8.2) and do not make it easy to upgrade from jessie to stretch. > > That incremental upgrade path is exactly your way to go. Been there, > done that. Complained to upstream loudly on that (as it sucks IMHO). more than loudly :P it doesnt suck, everything is documented and the job of the sysadmin is to read the docs :) we have lots of complex setup and cannot and will not make automatic detection. >> since fusiondirectory is a package to manage core infrastructure (like >> user databases and networking devices), extra should be taken to allow >> smooth upgrades between releases. > > Yes, I agree. everything is documented but i agree, a Readme.debian was missing, smooth upgrade from 1.0.8 to 1.0.19 is possible if you follow releases notes but keep in mind that is a jump of 22 releases and so extra care is needed. >> please fix this for the next point release (and please provide some >> instructions for the 9.0-users on how to handle their broken >> installations) we will add a Readme.Debian pointing where to got for upgrade instructions, a UPGRADE file is inside the debian package in the /usr/share/doc/fusiondirectory/docs/UPGRADE.gz > Will give it a shot when back at work next week. > >> PS: thanks for packaging fusiondirectory! > > ;-) > > Mike -- Benoit Mortier CEO OpenSides "logiciels libres pour entreprises" : http://www.opensides.eu/ Promouvoir et défendre le Logiciel Libre http://www.april.org/ Main developper in FusionDirectory : http://www.fusiondirectory.org/ Official French representative for OPSI : http://opsi.org/
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