[Pkg-samba-maint] Samba 4.1.17 Jessie

[Jelmer Vernooij]

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