https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8618

--- Comment #23 from [email protected] ---
Just upgraded a server from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04, which contains 2.5.x and
found out, that the options -p and -h got dropped - and requires me to adjust
quite a bit of scripts because of this non-sense.

This is such a poor software management and versioning, hard to believe, that
anyone who allowed it to go through, has any experience in enterprise ready
software.

1) If one decides to drop an option, it should be
   a) communicated clearly.
   b) documented and alternatives shown
2) If a software gets released, which has an incompatible change wrt. previous
major.minor.tiny version, it should rise the major number of the software
version, so that OS/Distro vendors are warned and may decide to stick with the
old version.

There are several options to allow -H and -h,-p side by side - openldap has
chosen the worst option. This might be a hint, how poor its maintenance
actually is/how bad the support by sysmas probably is. This is also a good
example, that for OS/Distro vendors it is sometimes a really good thing to
stick with the older version instead of switching to the "latest" stuff.

Anyway, thanx for the work. =8-(

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