[Pkg-samba-maint] Work to do|in progress for samba packages

[Luk Claes]

Christian Perrier wrote:
> This short mail to summarize the current issues we should deal with.
> 
> For unstable, we should upload a new 3.4.3-2 package with the fix for
> #558116. This will also include the switch to source 3.0 format.
> Steve, if you have time for this, it would be appreciated. Otherwise,
> I'll try to do it myself, but I can't promise much.
> 
> Please note that the switch to source v3 needs some patches to be
> refreshed, as they don't apply properly when applied from dpkg-source
> (apparently, if there's some fuzz in patches, they don't apply cleanly
> even though they were with quilt....weird).

This is probably a recent change in dpkg-dev where no fuzzy matching is
allowed anymore...

> Given the release plans of upstream samba (3.5 in January), and
> assuming that the "planned" squeeze release schedule is respected, I
> think we should target to release with 3.5.

I do hope to see some pre version in experimental soon in that case :-)

Cheers

Luk