https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8112

--- Comment #6 from Howard Chu hyc@openldap.org --- (In reply to Quanah Gibson-Mount from comment #4)

Need to cross reference if they are deprecated in the LDAP v3 RFC, and whether or not the alternatives are usable.

(In reply to Quanah Gibson-Mount from comment #5)

See c7338f5cdd for history of this.

The last API draft is dated 17 November 2000, while the above referenced commit is from 2006. These functions were not deprecated in the last draft, but it looks like they were intended to be, by 2006. Nothing in the current source tree uses ldap_explode_rdn (other than the libldap/dntest program). I think we should note they're deprecated in the manpage, and #ifdef them appropriately now.