Hello Werner. It is a very good argument, in fact apart from SAP I do not know of any software that still depends on the ancient 2.3 library. I think there has been a recommendation to use openSUSE code as much as possible in SLES product. Since the 2.3 ldap library is not used much, there shouldn't be much effort required to keep it in openSUSE. Kind regards, Howard On Thu, 1 Oct 2015, Werner Flamme wrote:
Howard Guo [01.10.2015 12:53]:
Hello All.
Sorry for a delayed response.
I just spoke with Peter and Peter reaffirms that the 2.3.x openldap client libraries are indeed in-use, but only by SAP products as far as we know.
Due to the super-long life cycle of SAP products, the 2.3.x library cannot yet be removed from openSUSE. But it would be a great idea to totally split 2.3.x source code from openldap2 package.
How do you like this idea?
Kind regards, Howard
Howard,
sorry, but who uses openSUSE to host a SAP system? My 13 SAP systems all use a SLES as base. It is stable, and of course I have a support contract for my productive systems and the others are covered with this contract as well.
Isn't it possible to create a package like openldap{_client,}_legacy as an optional package for those who need it?
Just my 2 ¢ Werner
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