[Pkg-samba-maint] samba4 upload?

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer at samba.org):

> Now that upstream has a combined 3.x/4.x branch and since it has been
> decided that the next release will be 4.0, I think it makes
> sense to start looking at creating a merged source package as well and
> (eventually) putting that in experimental.
> 
> For the most part, this will just be in stitching the contents of the
> samba and samba4 source packages together.
> 
> Upstream is going to stop shipping some of the tools that are
> currently duplicated between Samba 3 and Samba 4, such as smbclient
> and nmblookup, so the conflicts that currently exist between
> some of the Samba 3 and Samba 4 binary packages will go away.
> 
> It would probably make sense to keep two distinctive packages for
> the traditional filesharing daemons and the Active Directory
> daemon (from Samba 4, but named "samba"). Perhaps 'samba' (for the
> filesharing daemons) and 'samba-ad' (for the AD daemon) ?


At first glance, that sounds to be a good idea. Would you by any
chance plan to go to SambaXP? We could then work on this during that
week (unless you're busy to other stuff).


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