[Pkg-samba-maint] r3463 - trunk/samba/debian

[Luk Claes]

Steve Langasek wrote:
>> Modified:
>>    trunk/samba/debian/changelog
>>    trunk/samba/debian/smb.conf
>> Log:
>> Drop deprecated 'share modes' parameter from default smb.conf
>> Closes: #580561
> 
> 
>> <bubulle> vorlon: remind me that I want to talk you about out ucf handling
>>  of smb.conf changes in samba-common.postinst
> 
> So, Christian's question was about whether we should have a
> debian/smb.conf.lenny template used for upgrades from lenny.
> 
> We only need the per-release templates for handling upgrades from legacy
> versions of the package before ucf support was added.
> 
> With the release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, all supported upgrade paths to the
> devel release (and next stable release) of both Debian and Ubuntu are from
> versions that already use ucf. \o/  This means that we can in theory drop
> all the pre-ucf transition code from the package, making the packaging a
> little lighter.
> 
> Should we go ahead and do that, or are there concerns about supporting
> upgrades from packages lt 3.0.28-3 in some cases?  (Backports?)

Backports usually are newer and so also use ucf already, unless there
are still (unofficial) backports to sarge systems which don't introduce
the ucf dependency which I would doubt, though Christian will probably
know for sure.

Cheers

Luk