[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#620847: Keep shipping smbfs package with smbfs wrappers?

Luk Claes luk at debian.org
Mon Apr 4 16:32:25 UTC 2011


Package: smbfs

On 04/02/2011 08:28 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 05:50:45PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
>> Should we continue to provide an smbfs binary package with smbfs
>> wrappers? If not, now might be a good time to get rid of the smbfs package?
> 
> I don't think we need the wrapper anymore, but the cifs-utils package wasn't
> in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS; so it would be nice to keep the 'smbfs' transitional
> package around until 12.04 LTS to give a smooth upgrade there.  Of course,
> if you feel strongly about dropping it from the Debian archive now, Ubuntu
> can carry that as a delta.

Keeping it till next year is doable, so lets keep it till 12.04 LTS is
released. Though I'll open a bug to not forget about it :-)

Cheers

Luk





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