[Pkg-samba-maint] samba from experimental uninstallable --> future of Samba 4 packages

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:50:42PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> However, we also have to decide on the naming of the package(s) for
> lenny.

> It is nearly 100% likely that we'll have to keep both Samba 3 (for
> file and print services) and Samba 4 (for AD stuff) at the same time
> in the archive.

> My first idea would be suggesting to name samba 4 packages : samba4,
> samba4-common, etc....and make sure they can co-exist with the current
> samba packages.

> That would mean requesting for the removal of the current samba
> packages in experimental. Advices ?

Well, I'm in general not happy with the idea of needing two different
branches of samba in the archive in parallel for different services,
especially given that I don't think samba4 has support for proxying the file
and print services to a samba3 instance on the same system.  I guess there
might be some folks who want to run samba4 nevertheless because they need
the AD functionality, in which case a separate package would be necessary
after all.

But those packages would then need to not touch anything in /var/lib/samba,
/etc/samba, and so on.

Other than that, I personally have no interest in samba4 these days until
it's mature enough to be a replacement for samba3 and we can start working
out an upgrade path for it.

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