[Pkg-samba-maint] Samba 4.0: Upload to unstable.

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 05:12:46PM +0200, Ivo De Decker wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 02:37:36AM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> > Lintian still gives a lot of errors and warnings. Before we can upload
> > to unstable we should fix most of them (or silence them if what we do
> > is correct). This is the lintian output I get:

> Some comments on a number of those:

> > E: libnss-winbind: ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_wins.so lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_wins.so.2 libnss_wins.so
> > E: libnss-winbind: ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_winbind.so lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_winbind.so.2 libnss_winbind.so

> I committed a fix for those.

This is a wrong fix.  These are not shlibs, they're DSOs, and lintian is
wrong to report this error for them.

> > E: samba-common-bin: python-script-but-no-python-dep usr/bin/samba-tool
> > E: samba-common-bin: python-script-but-no-python-dep usr/sbin/samba_kcc

> > E: samba: python-script-but-no-python-dep usr/sbin/samba_dnsupdate
> > E: samba: python-script-but-no-python-dep usr/sbin/samba_spnupdate
> > E: samba: python-script-but-no-python-dep usr/sbin/samba_upgradedns

> Don't spend time on these. Some people think experimenting with :all
> dependencies should happen in unstable instead of experimental, and don't
> mind breaking stuff on the way.  This error will likely go away in the
> next version of lintian (#711988).

Just because lintian wasn't caught up doesn't mean it's experimental.

> > W: samba-dsdb-modules: postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig
> > W: samba-dsdb-modules: postrm-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig
> > W: samba-testsuite: postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig
> > W: samba-testsuite: postrm-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig

> Lintian suggests that this is actually a bug in debhelper.

Yes, that seems to be the case.

> > And what's up with the branches btw? We currently have samba_4.0,
> > samba_4.0_integrate and samba_4.0_integration. I just merged the
> > commit done by Andrew in samba_4.0 to the samba_4.0_integration
> > branch. Is there any reason the samba_4.0_integration branch can't be
> > pushed to samba_4.0 and we can't just all work on in the samba_4.0
> > branch?

> I merged everything into samba_4.0. We should just continue development
> there.

Should we delete the other branches now as obsolete?

What else needs to be done yet before we upload?

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