Re: SuSE engagement?

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Hi Quanah,

On 4/18/19 6:12 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> I'm looking at the patches SuSE applies to OpenLDAP, and it would be 
> nice to have some engagement from SuSE on kicking some of these back,

I'm sometimes trying to push them to coordinate with upstream. Problem 
is that SLE customer bugs in https://bugzilla.opensuse.org are most 
times locked. (I miss Ralf working on that.)

You can always lookup who has maintainer role:
https://build.opensuse.org/package/users/network:ldap/openldap2

> particularly something like 0017-Fix-segfault-in-nops.patch, which it 
> appears is to address ITS#8759.  Do you know what we need to do on our 
> end to encourage SuSE to contribute back to the community?

In particular the fight regarding 0017-Fix-segfault-in-nops.patch was 
pretty hard. Basically the private e-mail exchange after their OBS 
request between Howard Chu and SUSE devs faded out without any clear result.

To summarize Howard's statements:
In the best case the patch does nothing.

Especially the SUSE customer did not run a clean test environment for 
reliably reproducing the issue.

Therefore in my own packages I dropped 0017-Fix-segfault-in-nops.patch:

https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:stroeder:AE-DIR/openldap2

https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:stroeder:openldap/openldap-ms

(The above builds are stripped down even a bit more, e.g. no BDB-based 
backends.)

Ciao, Michael.