[Pkg-samba-maint] samba4 upload?

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Thu Mar 15 10:48:00 UTC 2012


Am 15/03/12 07:05, schrieb 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).
That would be useful I think. I'll be at SambaXP this year, probably
Tuesday until Friday.

Since you're suggesting this, I guess you also have plans to visit
Göttingen again this year?

Cheers,

Jelmer

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