[Pkg-samba-maint] [SCM] Debian packaging for Samba branch, samba_4.0, updated. upstream/4.0.6+dfsg-822-gbbe4102

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):

> I don't think it's appropriate to have any "transition" package
> (transitioning to what?), nor to force the package off the system with wrong
> package relationships.  The way for users to get old, unmaintained code off
> their systems is to check with a package manager's list of old and
> unmaintained code, *not* to have individual packages special-casing their
> removal.


Well, I don't know for your case but, in mine, I don'"t check for each
and every Debian server I maintain whether it has old unmaintained
code in one of the hundreds packages they have. And some of these
servers have been upgraded since woody is out (I even had a server
that once ran bo and got dist-upgraded up to lenny).

So, well, I still think this is bad to just leave things in the wild.
Which is why I think we have a weakness somewhere as the only way for
someone to learn about such unmaintained code is to actively search
for it.

Anyway, we should probably propose a release notes patch for jessie,
mentioning that SWAT is away.

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