[Pkg-samba-maint] Dropping swat...

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 14:15 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 09:59:49AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > Considering that upstream is planning to drop swat at one moment or
> > another, we just discussed about dropping it from the samba 4.0.x
> > packages.
> > 
> > Obviously, that will leave some users in the wild but I don't really
> > see any way to avoid that as, clearly, nobody stepped up to keep it
> > maintained.
> > 
> > We will then have to decide what is the less worse option for our users....
> > 
> > Please comment!
> +1 on dropping SWAT. 4.0 seems like a good moment to do so.
> 
> SWAT has never really made it beyond the stage of key/value pair editor. It should
> have been deprecated a long time ago. 

I strongly agree, and I'll push this in my next set of package updates.

Andrew Bartlett

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