[Pkg-samba-maint] Choice of upstream version for squeeze

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):

> > I guess with the current freeze announcement we will stay with 3.4 in
> > unstable/squeeze and we should probably at least provide unofficial
> > Debian packages for 3.6 prerelease already, maybe even in experimental.
> 
> We can still ask for a freeze exception if you guys think that's the right
> way to go.  I think the release team well understands that new upstream
> samba releases don't pose much risk of disrupting the freeze process.

I think this is the right way to go, yes. Given the estimated
timeframe of the squeeze release (I'd bet for "end of year"), we will
certainly end up with an unsupported 3.4 release very quickly (if 3.6
is  released by September, it means that 3.4 will be supported  for
security updates only until the next upstream that will happen around
June 2011. 

OTOH, as you mentioned, 3.5 has now proven mature enough (I do use it
on several servers of mine where it is for instance much better suited
for printing support on 64bit systems (incl. Win7).

So, I'm ready to ask for a freeze exception for 3.5.4 (the one we have
currently in experimental as soon as I'm back in France (next week).


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