[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#408033: smbfs: smbmount-unix-caps.patch no longer needed

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:42:30PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> This patch was added to workaround #310982 right around the release of sarge.
> However, this patch never ended up in sarge. Since then, this bug has been
> fixed in the upstream 2.4 and 2.6 kernels and this fix exists in the latest
> sarge, etch and sid kernels.

Sorry, can you give the exact versions of the kernel packages that fixed
this for Debian?  Did the fix in question trickle in via upstream in the
case of etch/sid?

> Note that the kernel change makes some corner use cases impossible without
> some additional userspace changes to samba. Upstream has agreed to accept
> these patches[1], but I don't know if they've been committed yet.

Even if it's still a case that all server-side perms are ignored, dropping
this patch is still an improvement for users wanting symlink support,
apparently.  So I agree with dropping it, as long as we're sure the kernel
changes are in place.

Cheers,
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