[Pkg-samba-maint] samba4 packages

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 09:16:05AM +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 20:12 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > (Andrew, I never remember if you're subscribed to pkg-samba-maint : it
> > would allow us to omit CC'ing you each time)

> > > I'm not sure which repository you have been looking at; I might have created a
> > > bzr-mirror in the past. The official repository for the 'samba' package is
> > > (to the best of my knowledge) in Subversion at
> > > svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-samba/trunk/samba

> > Yes. The reference for "samba" should be there.

> > This SVN repository is *very* big and has many branches....but, well,
> > it did the job for many years, too..:-)

> > The trunk currently has the 3.6.12 packages which are "samba" in
> > experimental.

> > branches/wheezy has the packages that are in unstable and wheey,
> > i.e. those that will be released with wheezy.

> > I would recommend using the trunk as the starting point for The Big Merge.

> One of the things I found confusing about that SVN repo is that unlike
> the git repos, it contains a full checkout of the tree.

> Of course, I only have to care about the debian dir, but if I do that
> the rest of the tree will be out of sync, so it's very confusing. 

The repo at git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-samba/samba.git appears to also be
a full tree repo.  Which is definitely what we want; pulling in a new
upstream version of samba will ideally (ultimately) be as easy as a 'git
merge' + some git-buildpackage magic to suck in the tarball releases for
pristine-tar.

At present, though, all Debian packaging changes should definitely be
confined to the debian/ directory (upstream changes via debian/patches), so
you should indeed only have to care about the debian dir.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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