[Pkg-samba-maint] ctdb now in Debian lenny - samba-related packages in Debian

[Mathieu PARENT]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org> wrote:
> Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):
>  > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 06:29:24PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
>  > > On the other hand, the timeframe is becoming pretty short for samba
>  > > 3.2.0 to be in lenny. The release managers have explicitely called
>  > > maintainers to "soft freeze" their packages so, at one point we will
>  > > need to decide whether we target 3.0.x in lenny, or 3.2.x
The current release schedule for 3.2 is here:
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_3.2

Friday, April 18 - Planned release date for 3.2.0.


>  >
>  > Aside from 3.2.0 not being released yet, the other issue with switching to
>  > 3.2 for release was the license change - I believe that we still have a
>  > license conflict with KDE and would need to provide a license-compatible
>  > libsmbclient build from samba 3.0 still?
>
>  You're right. I forgot about this issue. Maybe the KDE team has been
>  able to work on the issue meanwhile?

qt3 is already GPL2-3 in lenny (see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464615 for example).

For kdebase, and specially kdebase-kio-plugins, redhat folks says that
it is already ok
(http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2008-January/msg01898.html
or http://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&order=ASC&topic_id=50548&forum=11&move=prev&topic_time=1200932643).
This is the case in ''/kioslave/smb/'' upstream 3.5.9 sources.

I don't know if this is enough. Maybe we should ask debian-legal ?

(see also http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/KDE_Relicensing)

>
>
>  > I'm happy enough to work on this, but I'm not sure how much time I'll really
>  > have for it; and while there's been discussion upstream about a revamped
>  > libsmbclient with a changed ABI, I'm not sure that's something that's
>  > landing for 3.2.0, which makes packaging the two libraries in parallel
>  > tricky.
>
>   Possible. Actually somethign I don't have much clue about, I'm
>  afraid.
Thanks