Hi Howard,
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 09:58:05AM +0200, Howard Guo wrote:
> Hello Ralf and Michael.
>
> If I remember correctly, the 2.3.x library has to do with SAP products, but I
> do not know enough about SAP to comment further on this. Perhaps Peter could
> share more insights.
Ok, but it could still be moved to separate package/spec file, right? That's a
pretty easy thing to do and I guess we don't really need those compat packages
for Factory/Tumbleweed anyway. If I understood correctly, Michael would be
willing spend more time on maintaining the OpenLDAP packages for openSUSE
without those ancient bits. Are you ok with removing the 2.3 bits in
network:ldap?
> Kind regards,
> Howard
>
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Ralf Haferkamp wrote:
>
> >Hi Michael,
> >
> >On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 08:21:35AM +0200, Michael Ströder wrote:
> >>Hello Ralf,
> >>
> >>Ralf Haferkamp wrote:
> >>>True. The 2.3.X based builts of the slapcat tool were included for migrating
> >>>from SLE10 to SLE11 (which already containted a 2.4 release). So I am not quite
> >>>sure why that is still there. IMO it would be ok to remove that part from the
> >>>packages now. (Note, I might be missing something as I am not currently actively
> >>>working on the packages)
> >>>
> >>>Though having that semiautomatic migration was a specific
> >>>requirement for SLE11 back then.
> >>
> >>Note that even the upstream package disabled SLE_11 builds and it does not
> >>work IIRC because of missing krb5-mini:
> >>
> >>https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/network:ldap/openldap2
> >>
> >>In my package the builds for SLE_12 seems to work. But I can't test them since
> >>I don't have a SLE_12 machine.
> >>
> >>>>=> So there's no point to maintain this 2.3.x cruft (except compat libldap
> >>>>2.3.x for legacy binary software).
> >>
> >>>Yeah. The compat libldap is a bit different. That probably has to stay in some
> >>>way (at least for SLE).
> >>
> >>But who is going to maintain that? Likely not me because I can't test at all.
> >>
> >>So how to proceed from here? Could someone please start a new
> >>compat-libldap-2.3 package herein?
> >Yeah, that might be one solution. But I'd like to get Peter's or Howard's input
> >on this. I put them on CC in case they are not subscribed here. I am not even
> >sure if the compat libraries are still needed for SLE12. After all it's now
> >almost 8 years after the 2.4 branch saw its first "stable" release.
> >
> >>https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:stroeder:branches:network:ldap
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regards,
Ralf