[Pkg-samba-maint] Samba 4.1.17 Jessie

[Rob Mason]

Hi Guys - I see that samba (2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u1) is actually released!
Before I break anything, I wonder if you have any advice - I have been
running a compiled version of Samba 4.3.2 under Jessie.  Any ideas how I
can safely migrate (downgrade) my AD to the Debian 4.2 package?

Thanks

On 14 March 2016 at 17:51, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at jelmer.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 08:21:09PM +1300, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 17:44 +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > > Hi Rob,
> > >
> > > On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 11:25:04AM +0000, Rob Mason wrote:
> > > > Hi Guys - currently the Samba4 release is at 4.1.27 on Jessie.  Are
> > > > there
> > > > plans to move to 4.2 or 4.3?
> > > Packages in stable releases are not upgraded to new major
> > > releases, though we may backport bug fixes for severe bugs in stable
> > > releases.
> > >
> > > You can either wait for stretch to be released (with Samba 4.3,
> > > hopefully) or request a backport of a newer Samba once 4.3 hits
> > > testing. See http://backports.debian.org/
> >
> > Like all stable distributions, we are going to be in a bit of a bind
> > when Samba 4.4 is released.  The Samba team has tightened up the
> > release cycle, and so there will be much, much longer that Debian (and
> > all the other vendors) will be maintaining 4.1 without the official
> > support of samba.org.
> >
> > Now of course we have long had this policy, and long provided
> > backported patches far further than we promise, but upstream will
> > hopefully be releasing Samba 4.6 by the time Jessie becomes old-stable,
> > let along unsupported.  Samba 4.1, particularly in the AD DC, will be
> > very old by then.
> >
> > I'm not sure what I can propose, I'm just a bit worried.
> Somebody that is interested in maintaining a backport of 4.3, 4.4 or 4.6
> for
> jessie can do so. The pkg-samba-maint team doesn't have to be involved.
>
> Jelmer
>
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