[Pkg-samba-maint] (forw) [Announce] Samba 3.6.7 Available for Download

[Ivo De Decker]

Christian,

On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 09:57:54PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> I don't think we'll manage to "sell" this to the release team..:-).

I looked at the diff, and a simple 3.6.7 upload will almost certainly get a
'no' from the release team. There are rather large (in the diff) changes to
fix the build on solaris (which obviously isn't relevant) and to fix the build
against cups 1.6 (which isn't in debian). The other changes also look
complicated. A simple review of the code by someone who is not familiar with
samba code doesn't give a real indication that the changes "won't break"
anything.

Are there specific fixes you think we should try to 'backport'?

> I really would like bt I think that, in some way, our release policy isn't
> really great...because I'm 101% sure that 3.6.7 is by far an improvement
> over 3.6.6

Well, I think it's impossible for the release team to start giving broad
exceptions to some packages and not to others...

> Anyway, I'm considering to upload this 3.6.7 release to experimental.
> 
> In our VCS, we have two options:
> 
> - branch the trunk as experimental and do 3.6.7 work there
> - branch the trunk as wheezy (which we'll do at some point anyway) and
> work on experimental in the trunk
> 
> Advices?

I think using an 'experimental' branch for packages in experimental is the
best way. But I don't really feel that strongly about it.

Cheers,

Ivo