[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#728866: Bug#728866: samba: please package libnetapi

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 01:49:14PM +0100, Hans Leidekker wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 12:36 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 12:15:21PM +0100, Hans Leidekker wrote:
> > > Package: samba
> > > Version: 2:3.6.19-1
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > > 
> > > Dear Maintainer,
> > > *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> > > 
> > >    * What led up to the situation?
> > > 
> > >      I'm implementing support for accessing remote machines in Wine on top of Samba's libnetapi.
> > >      This is my request to package this library on Debian.
> > 
> > Please see the samba-dev package that is available in sid.
> > 
> > If that is not sufficient somehow, please specify what files
> > exactly you need.
> 
> Is see libnetapi.so is included in Samba 4 on sid. Any chance this can be
> back-ported to a 3.6.x release?

No, a backport to 3.6.x is not likely. 4.x will soon be available in testing
as well as sid.

This is not a change that would be appropriate for backporting into
a stable Debian release (e.g. wheezy).

Cheers,

Jelmer