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

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Hi Steve,

Am Mittwoch, den 23.01.2008, 10:10 +0000 schrieb 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.
No, they're still under the name Samba. Perhaps this would be a good
  moment to rename the package to Samba 4 so it can eventually also be
 uploaded to sid. That would allow openchange to enter sid at some point as well, 
which I think would be useful.

> > 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.
Thanks! There's no hurry. I'll make sure to rename the source package in
the next week or so.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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