[Pkg-samba-maint] Is "Processed: Still in wheezy" really a good idea?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sun, 2016-04-03 at 13:36 +0200, Mathieu Parent wrote:
> 2016-04-03 7:33 GMT+02:00 Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>:
> > On Sun, 2016-04-03 at 05:09 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System
> > wrote:
> > > Processing control commands:
> > > 
> > > > reopen -1
> > 
> > I realise is is correct etc, but I'm wondering what the value in
> > this
> > is.  The Samba Team has long abandoned 3.6, and we have no
> > resources
> > here to deal with anything but the security and trivial issues in
> > unstable, sometimes also stable.
> > 
> > We are uncomfortably stretched doing even that.
> > 
> > So when we re-open these, do we just give false hope?
> > 
> > I don't mean this to tell you off, more that I would like to open a
> > reasonable discussion about what we can really achieve in wheezy
> > and
> > even jessie.
> 
> Hello Andrew,
> 
> As you have seen, I'm doing some triaging. I originally though from
> the sid point-of-view, marking as done accordingly. Then, Paul Wise's
> email flipped my PoV.

OK.

> I propose for wheezy: We can coordinate with the security and LTS
> teams to mark samba unsupported on wheezy (also given the upcoming
> BadLock security issue)
> 
> I propose for jessie: ask the release team if we can upload the
> latest
> 4.1.x to jessie-security (or point-release).

To be clear, there won't be another Samba 4.1 release, it is also
unsupported by upstream Samba.  

Andrew Bartlett

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