URL:
https://github.com/SSSD/sssd/pull/408
Title: #408: Backport of PR#275 to SSSD-1.14
lslebodn commented:
"""
I understand that it would be good to keep new functionality only in
new versions. And in any other situation I would that the same.
Thank you very much for understanding.
However since the main patch comes from my business needs (actually my
employers needs) and those needs require us using the same approach across wide variety of
existing systems which include EL6 based systems as well as Ubuntu16.04/14.04 and Debian
and Amazon Linux, I need to make it work on those systems. Also note many of our new
coming customers still require el6 for legacy reasons. And I cannot keep maintaining self
compiled packages over a long period of time. Thus it would be perfect (in my situation)
if these could be backported to maintenance branches.
This is a problem of downstream distribution that they rely on new features and cannot
rebase.
I would prefer to backport it later to LTM branch(1.13) after confirmation from many users
that it work reliably and they really need it there.
I'm quite fine with backporting it to 1.14 because it will soon become unsupported
branch by upstream (the same as branches older then 1-13).
I will wait for opinion from other developers. (1 week :-)
"""
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https://github.com/SSSD/sssd/pull/408#issuecomment-338171007