[Pkg-samba-maint] Samba and badlock in Debian

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2016-04-05 at 09:30 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Alain Deléglise (alain.deleglise at alterway.fr):
> 
> > I'm sure that you guys are serious about maintaing Samba for
> > Debian, and
> > please be sure that me
> > and my fellow colleagues would pay you a beer if you somehow manage
> > to
> > come in France ;)
> 
> 
> Which would be great....
> 
> I use this opportunity to thank Jelmer (and now Andrew as well, who
> seems to be taking more of his time in .deb packaging....) for
> keeping
> the pace with Samba packaging, after some of us mostly stepped out
> (/me included).

I'm starting to really enjoy it.  Something about the iteration of
building and packaging is simple and practical.  

I do worry that for good or ill, there will be a critical eye passed
over all Linux vendors on how we go at patching 'badlock', and I don't
want Debian caught out.  I also figured I could pitch in practically to
improve our record on packaging new major Samba versions. 

If we get Samba 4.4 into testing soon, that opens it up for a backport,
which in turn gives users some choice.

> I'm still subscribed to the packaging list and still following things
> from far away. Sadly (for Open Source development), my own priorities
> switched quite strongly from Debian stuff to running
> activities....and
> I gradually handed over several tasks in Debian, including Samba
> packaging.
> 
> Still, I keep a special attention to this list, at least trying to
> give a hand if needed, in the areas where I sill can (too technical
> things are now out of question, though).
> 
> You guys are not (completely) alone....;-)

Thanks.

> And with no doubt, more help would be great. Bug triaging, as
> mentioned, has been left aside and there are probably tons of bugs
> that we triaged in the past, back to 10 years ago and more.....and
> that are still opened while probably irrelevant for many of them.

Indeed.

Andrew Bartlett

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