[Pkg-samba-maint] Looking for a sponsor for Samba 4 and OpenChange

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:18:32PM +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> As I wrote to the list yesterday, I have built new Samba 4 and
> OpenChange packages. Is anybody interested in sponsoring these packages?

> Would it be possible to have the XS-DM-Allow-Upload flag set on the
> Samba package? I hope to do more frequent uploads to experimental in the
> future. Unfortunately this flag appears to only be recognized when set
> on packages in sid, but I can promise to only ever upload to
> experimental :-)

I thought the Samba 4 packages in experimental were being done under a
different source package name, "samba4"?  If so, setting the
XS-DM-Allow-Upload flag on the samba package would have no bearing on
samba4, unstable or no.

> The OpenChange packaging is in pkg-samba Subversion. The Samba 4
> packaging is in git at git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-samba/samba4.git

> Binary packages are available from
> http://samba.org/~jelmer/debian/experimental

I am interested, but I don't expect to have any time for sponsoring the said
packages over the next week and a half.

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