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

[Ivo De Decker]

Hi Andrew,

On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 07:28:41PM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > May I suggest that you push your git repo to Alioth (git.debian.org)?
> 
> I don't have any logins there, but I'll push it to the
> git://git.samba.org/abartlet/samba-debian.git samba-full-package branch
> tomorrow once I get real internet access.

Please create an account at
https://alioth.debian.org/account/register.php

Once you have done that, Christian will add you to the pkg-samba project,
which will give you commit access to all our repo's.

> > 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".
> 
> That's (frankly) quite frustrating at this point, as I've just spent the
> time since I gave up on this previously re-basing on the 3.6 package, as
> that was what was asked for. 
> 
> I already had the package against the samba4 repo.  Now, we have avoided
> loosing some existing patches with the work I've done, but it remains
> frustrating to get conflicting suggestions as to what basis I should be
> using. 

Sorry about this conflicting info. I still think Christian's original idea of
starting from the samba 3.6 branch is best, as this makes it less likely to
break existing setups. See my other mail about the conversion.

> Attached are the patches on top of the 3.6 package (r4177) that I'm
> using, and that correctly builds Samba 4.0.3 (as far as I can tell), but
> which fails in some parts of the install. 

Thanks for your work!

Now that samba 3.6 is in unstable, I propose we upload a packages based on
your work to experimental fairly soon. It should stay there till most use
cases are more or less fixed. This should avoid too much breakage in unstable,
and also allows us to keep getting the latest samba 3.6 fixes in testing and
wheezy-backports. Once the samba 4.x packages works well enough, it can go to
unstable (and backports).

Cheers,

Ivo