[Pkg-samba-maint] Packaging Samba 4.2 in Debian

[Mathieu Parent (Debian)]

2015-04-25 23:26 GMT+02:00 Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at jelmer.uk>:
> With (almost) jessie out of the door, I've had a look at packaging
> Samba 4.2 for Sid today.
>
> There appear to be a number of issues currently preventing 4.2 from
> being uploaded:
>
>  * Samba 4.2 includes ctdb, rather than supporting system versions *
>    (https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2014-October/103189.html)
>
> With Samba being the origin of the latest ctdb release, do we want to keep
> shipping standalone ctdb packages?
>
> No other packages in the archive currently depend on it, and with
> the recent changes Samba can no longer use it.

Hello,

(with my ctdb's maintainer's hat on)

The ctdb source package should go away, but I think we should keep the
ctdb binary packages (ctdb, ctdb-dbg, libctdb-dev and ctdb-pcp-pmda).
Some sysadmins (including me*) use ctdb as a clustering solution easy
to set up. Those packages should not pull the samba services (I don't
mind if they pull the libraries).

Regards

-- 
Mathieu Parent

*: Even if moving most of them to corosync+pacemaker