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

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 06:56:05PM +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:

> 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.

Ah, given that we currently have samba 3.2 in experimental and I remember us
deciding a while ago to use different names for samba4 packaging, yes, I
think this would be a good moment.

Cheers,
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