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

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):

> > 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

Yes, it seems that we finally concluded this, on the assumption that
we will have, at some moment to have both suites of packages coexist.

Moreover, I think we should reserve room for us to upload the next
3.2.0 pre-release which is, IIRC, currently being cooked by Jerry.


> XS-DM-Allow-Upload flag on the samba package would have no bearing on
> samba4, unstable or no.


I would even say that we could *maybe* consider samba4 for unstable in
such case. That could help other stuff to come along with it
(openchange and the like).

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