[Pkg-samba-maint] I'm back working on the full Samba 4.0 package

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Andrew Bartlett (abartlet at samba.org):
> Just as a heads-up, to avoid duplication of effort, I've started work
> again on the full Samba 4.0 package.
> 
> This package includes everything, the file, print, and AD servers, and
> uses the correct smbd file server by default.  It builds correctly on
> current sid/experimental, but I still have some issues on install.  
> 
> It has now been rebased on top of the 3.6 package, which means we now
> include many of the patches from that development stream.  There remains
> much work to do however.  In particular, I don't think the shared
> library dependencies are working at all.
> 
> I'll push it somewhere once I get more significant bandwidth, but I just
> wanted to avoid double-work, and get folks interested again. 

As Jelmer suggested, it's probably time that we converge also towards
a stable place to host all this.

May I suggest that you push your git repo to Alioth (git.debian.org)?

We currently have:

git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-samba/samba.git : I'm trying to
  figure out what that may be
git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-samba/samba4.git : packages developed
  by Jelmer up to now


IMHO, the "right" way would be either merging Andrew's work into the
current samba4.....or just replace it and then rename it to "samba",
moving aside the current "samba".

I though a bit more about the SVN repo conversion and, though I didn't
try to do it yet....I think it will be a LOT of work, mostly because
this is a multi-package repository and I doubt we can really easily
make it a "standard" git-buildpackage-compliant git repo. And I even
more doubt we can really merge it with the work by Jelmer then Andrew.

I'm also unsure about the benefit we would have from this.

So, my proposal would finally be to keep things in SVN for the
"samba3" packages : we continue to develop there for versions 3
(wheezy and squeeze security updates, maybe some backports)....and we
use the new git for versions 4.

Otherwise, I fear that the conversion+merge work becomes a blocker and
we indeed need to introduce "samba" packages that are version 4.x as
soon as possible in the jessie release cycle. We *know* that we're
likely to break upgrades of existing setups and we'll probably need
time to sort them out.


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