[Pkg-samba-maint] backporting samba

[Harry Jede]

Hi all,
on the samba mailing list are some discussions about backorting newer 
samba upstream versions to jessie. I have offered that i am willing and 
possibly able to do this. Now, after some days, reading lots of 
documents and howtos i am feeling a little bit lost :-( .

This document
http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/

stated that a backport to jessie is *only* allowed from strech. But the 
version in stretch is 2:4.3.8+dfsg-1. I believe that that a newer 
version i.e. 4.3.9 from upstream or 2:4.4.3+dfsg-2 from sid may be the 
current best candidate for a backport. So should i wait until 
2:4.4.3+dfsg-2 reaches stretch?

Next question: mentor or who is willing to support me?



----------  Weitergeleitete Nachricht  ----------

Betreff: Re: [Samba] Package Samba4 as a .deb
Datum: Samstag, 30. April 2016, 22:00:11
Von: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
An:  Harry Jede <harry.jede at arcor.de>
Kopie:  "L.P.H. van Belle" <belle at bazuin.nl>

On Sat, 2016-04-30 at 16:05 +0200, Harry Jede wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> hi Louis,
>  
> > On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 11:49 +0200, L.P.H. van Belle wrote:
> > > Using debian 4.4.2 for 2 weeks now, no problems,
> > > Created own deb file from the experimental sources.
> > > 4.4.2-2 is debian unstable now, its not that hard to recompile it
> > > to jessie.
> > > 
> > > Just make sure the compiling machine has a local repo which
> > > containt the needed files for samba.
> > > Start with with compiling tevent talloc ldb tbd.
> > 
> > It would be great if someone would maintain a backport in
> > backports.debian.org for this.
> I manage some private repositories since squeeze. So, I believe I am
> able to do this. May be together with Louis.

Great.  Instructions are at backports.debian.org.   

> Currently my repositories works as normal or backport repositories
> for i386 and amd64 ports. My last samba backport to jessie:
>  
> root at deb-8-t1:/home/hjede/source# find . -maxdepth 2 -type d
> .
> ./samba
> ./samba/samba-4.3.6
> ./samba/orig
> ./tdb
> ./tdb/tdb-1.3.8
> ./talloc
> ./talloc/talloc-2.1.5
> ./tevent
> ./tevent/tevent-0.9.28
> ./ldb
> ./ldb/ldb-1.1.26
>  
> I use mini-dinstall and dput to mange the packages via the
> changelogs. My private reps are unsigned, some other are signed, the
> packages are always unsigned.
>  
> Normaly i use "dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc" to build packages.
>  
> The version informations for tdb, talloc, tevent and ldb to build I
> compare with the waf script, ie:
>  
> root at deb-8-t1:/home/hjede/source# grep ^VERSION tdb/tdb-1.3.8/wscript
> VERSION = '1.3.8'

Sounds like you understand what is required then.  Also keen in touch
with Debian Samba Maintainers <
pkg-samba-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org>and see if you can help out on
the upstream package, particularly when you spot issues during the
backport that we should fix in the unstable packages.  We need help
there too, but a backport is both a big gap and an easily defined
thing. 

> BTW
> "make clean" often does not work, if something goes wrong. So I need
> to remove the build directory and unpack the sources again.
>  
> Beside samba I also build openldap with gnutls or openssl, gq and
> some custom udebs for the debian-installer. And yes I also speak
> debconf to interview admins or to do fully automated installs, ie for
> pxe-boot.
>  
> > 
> > Andrew Bartlett
>  
>  
> PS:
> my email on samba at lists.samba.org:
> Harry Jede <walk2sun at arcor.de>
>  
>  
> PS2:
> I have time but no money.

One of the reasons I'm really keen get a current Samba in Debian, and
then a backport maintained, is that so many of our administrators are
in that same situation, and now that EnterpriseSamba has gone from
brand building to a commercial service as samba.plus, I think that on
Debian at least, there should be a gratis option for current packages.

Andrew Bartlett
-- 
Andrew Bartlett                       http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team  http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Catalyst IT          
http://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba




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Harry Jede
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