[Pkg-samba-maint] Re: [Fwd: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 4600] New: make python_ext fails for 3.0.25rc3]

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 07:42:21PM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:37:30PM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> > Is anyone willing to maintain the python extensions these
> > days or should we drop them from the release in 3.0.26.

> Be aware that this task is bigger than it first looks. The
> changes Steve Langasek wrote for 3.0.25 don't apply to 3_0
> anymore, right now they break with the change to PIDL for
> the wkssvc, potentially also for others.

> I'd vote to drop them from the Samba distribution if I was
> asked, nobody I know actually uses them. But I might not
> have the right sample of people I know.

I was going to try to give a counterexample from Debian, but apparently out
of 92 installations of python-samba reported via our popcon tool, no one is
actually using the package. :)

I've cc:ed the Debian developers who originally requested that we ship these
bindings; perhaps one of them still has a use for those bindings and would
be willing to maintain them upstream.  If not, I have no objections to
dropping them, though it would be helpful to us if dropping them was done
post-3.0.25.

Cheers,
-- 
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Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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