[Pkg-samba-maint] Samba 4 questions

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 22:49 +0200, Sean M. Pappalardo wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Samba4 appears to be the answer I need for my network but I can't yet 
> install it with confidence since the package in Wheezy is not up to date 
> and the instructions to package my own 
> (http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/Debian) are not working for me.
> 
> Just two questions:
> 
> 1) Why is there a separate "samba4" package? The Samba team told me that 
> v4.0 is intended to upgrade v3.x.

This is being (very) actively addressed right now.  Or for non-distro
packages, SerNet has packages at enterprisesamba.org

> 2) Can you please update the Wheezy package (or do so in backports?)

A back-port is the most the can be hoped for here.  It is a major change
for a released distribution (ie, not going to happen). 

Andrew Bartlett

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