[Pkg-samba-maint] News about backports

[Luk Claes]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 07:14:46AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> 
>> The only actions needed to backport our current stable packages are:
>> - drop libtalloc-dev from the build dependencies
>> - add "--without-libtalloc" in debian/rules
> 
>> Julien Cristau pointed me to the "libcups2-dev | libcupsys2-dev" build
>> dependency that should be changed to "libcupsys2-dev" for Etch, as
>> causing problems for some arches. I haven't thought deeper to
>> this..:-)
> 
> This will affect official backports because they use the stock Debian buildd
> configuration, which requires the first branch of any or'ed build-dep to be
> satisfied, yes.

Are you sure about that, I thought it was a slightly patched sbuild.
It's easy enough to verify though: Christian, did you upload with the
above alternative build dependency? If so, it looks to build ok on the
unofficial buildds.

>> As of now, I created packages for lenny and etch, for samba 3.2.8, and
>> only for i386.
> 
>> The version numbers are 2:3.2.8-1~unoff{40|50}+1. Even thouogh there
>> is no 2:3.2.8-1 version anywhere, I felt it would be good to have
>> something similar to bpo versioning scheme.
> 
> It's your prerogative to spend time on these if you want to, but I don't see
> how there's any value in this and definitely won't be putting any work into
> them (nor helping with any bug reports that result).  I think we should be
> more concerned about getting samba updated in unstable, which is where I'm
> going to focus my attention.

Right, I do agree with Steve. Though if you need this packages anyway or
something similar, the better for the users that want/need these :-)

> (For that matter, I have no interest in ongoing backports to etch, generally
> - if users find that the software in etch doesn't meet their needs, they
> should be looking at upgrading to the current Debian release instead, since
> that will be lenny very shortly.)

It's not always easy to upgrade, so I think having (official) backports
for etch (and soon lenny) is nice anyway.

Cheers

Luk