Ref: https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2019-October/134387.html https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba/merge_requests/829
To be clear, we can't backport this to 4.11 We are pushing the limits of our normal procedures by removing this in master (4.12) without first a full release cycle of notice in WHATSNEW, we certainly can't backport removing functionality into the stable release series, (almost) no matter how unwise.
(In reply to Andrew Bartlett from comment #1) Ok thanks. Just as a reference (for fedora), here's the v4-11 pipeline: https://gitlab.com/samba-team/devel/samba/commits/iboukris-kdes-v4-11-test
Released with 4.12.0