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

[Alain Deléglise]

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
>
Thanks for those informations.

I would gladly provide any help not related to development,
I just need an help in hand on how to achieve this : best practices,
mandatory elements, url, accounts ...

I've told to Jelmer that he can ask me whatever he needs in the bug
report Andrew mentionned.

Alain Deléglise