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

[Ivo De Decker]

Andrew,

On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 02:24:08PM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> OK.  I've rebased on the new repo, and have the result at
> 
> git://git.samba.org/abartlet/samba-debian.git
> samba-full-package-on-new-repo

OK, thanks. I will take a look at this soon.

> Do we want to import my patch stream, even with TODO stuff in there, or
> wait until those are resolved, or just remove the markers and maintain
> the issue list elsewhere?

I see no problem importing it all. If necessary, it can be cleaned up later.
It's probably not a bad idea to keep the TODO stuff in de repo, so it's
clearly linked to that specific version.

> > I totally agree that we should get rid of these patches. We had issues with
> > these as well in samba 3.6 just a few weeks ago. If I remember correctly, the
> > only real exception is smbpasswd, which is in /etc/samba instead of
> > /var/lib/samba. If smbpasswd is still supported in samba 4, maybe we should
> > get a separate upstream build option to move smbpasswd, so that all other
> > files can be put in their location with build options instead of patches.
> > 
> > Once it's clear where everything was and where it needs to be, it's just a
> > matter of moving everything on upgrade. As we had to do this for samba 3.6, we
> > unfortunately have example scripts for this, so this shouldn't be a big deal.
> 
> I dislike adding more build options, but if you need to, everything is
> already set up to do that, just not exposed.  

I understand, and we should avoid them as much as possible. But it still is
better than patching the code for the Debian packages. That will just give us
more problems later on when the code changes (as we've seen in the past).

> Even just re-writing the doc patches into git-format-patch format for
> upstream Samba master will mean I can just apply them, and have them
> re-appear in 4.0.6 due May 26.  (Rather than have them languish on bugs,
> if I get a mail with a set of stuff I can just apply, I'm very happy to
> apply them.  For example, testprns is long gone in Samba, not just in
> debian Samba). 

I'll try to go over our patches again, to see what can be forwarded upstream.
When is the deadline for 4.0.6?

Cheers,

Ivo