On Fri, 2020-07-10 at 14:20 +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 14:10:30 +0200, Richard Brown <rbrown@suse.de> wrote:
Those applications are in serious breach of both the FHS recommendations and POSIX requirements.
I would imagine they have a vested interest in fixing that problem.
The example I can come up with is a production system where 4 parties are involved: end-user application, management-layer, database layer, database server. Of those the management layer has been declared out- of service (dead, no maint) but the whole of the suite still depends on that for at least two more years (some weird law that causes this requirement). The owner of that product is unwilling to make any change to the product. No CVE fixes, not bug fixes, no feature request or whatever, so the engineers responsible for the end-user application and the database layer both have to work around those issues.
Working with old propriatary software sometimes really takes away the fun out of ICT :(
And you're running this on Tumbleweed? I'm pretty sure you're not expecting us to support such bad practice indefinately, right? -- Richard Brown Linux Distribution Engineer - Future Technology Team Phone +4991174053-361 SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org