[Pkg-samba-maint] Upcoming possible licensing issues kde vs samba

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Mon Nov 12 21:30:50 UTC 2007


On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 09:53:54PM +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 06:09:16AM +0000, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > Quoting Ana Guerrero (ana at debian.org):

> > > We'll need maintain both samba versions in the archive or at least current
> > > libsmbclient, that is what kde needs.

> > OK, I feared that..:-)

> Sorry :)

> > So, as this is something we'll have to keep for lenny, we have to
> > create a samba30 source package that provides libsmbclient30 only so
> > that KDE can link to it while we continue shipping "samba" for 3.2.x
> > and later.

> Ok, let me know when you upload it and i'll change the b-d on libsmbclient-dev 
> to whatever you call it.

I expect "libsmbclient-gpl2-dev", since that describes what it is.

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