[Pkg-samba-maint] Samba4 package problems

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Sean M. Pappalardo (pegasus at renegadetech.com):
> Hello.
> 
> Is it too early to report bugs on the samba4 package? I've tried

Hello, 

Thanks for your interest in our work.

No, it is not too early, though we might be slower than you expect to
process them.

However, I recommend:
- that you report bugs against the experimental version only
- that you wait for it to be updated to the latest upstream version
(it is not, as of now)
- that you report bugs that are clearly upstream  issues *directly* to
the upstream Bugzilla: reporting them in the Debian BTS will work, but
add more load to the shouldersof Jelmer who is both the Debian
maintainer and one of the most upstream developers

> The problems I'm seeing so far is that just apt-installing "samba4"
> brings in some samba 3.x stuff (like samba-common) and doesn't
> include the smbd binary or the /usr/lib//samba//vfs/acl_xattr.so
> file. (And 3.x binaries are unsuitable. These must match the samba4
> binary version.) Same goes for /usr/lib/libwbclient.so.0.

Coexistence of samba and samba4 packages is currently not something we
expect to work well and I doubt it will in wheezy. And we're mostly
focused on wheezy.

So the above bugs are, in some way, known by the packaging team and
mostly left aside as of now.

> 
> Plus Samba 4.0.2 was just released yesterday (and 4.0.3 is due next
> Tuesday.)
> 
> Thanks for your time and work! Looking forward to seeing Samba4 in
> Debian mainstream!


That will happen for Debian jessie and will be named "samba" as
upstream wants for the concept of "Samba4" to slowly vanish...:-)

Our goal is to have one samba package, which will be the latest
upstream in the 4.x series and includes both AD-style services and the
good old file and print services. Smooth transition is indeed a big
challenge for the packaging team.