[Pkg-samba-maint] Samba Jessie-backport

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Hi Leopold,

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 08:19:56AM +0200, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
> the current version of Samba in Jessie doesn't not work fine with Windows 10.
> 
> https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2015-September/193886.html
> 
> I think that backporting the current Stretch version of Samba to Jessie 
> (supporting Windows 10) could be a good option. I'm not able to evaluate the 
> cost in time about this option. Looking build dependencies I see that there 
> are three packages that are not in Jessie and not maintained by the Debian 
> Samba Maintainers:
> 
> * libnss-wrapper libresolv-wrapper libsocket-wrapper 
> 
> and some packages with not available versions but maintained by the same team:
> 
> * libldb-dev (>= 2:1.1.26~) 
>   libtalloc-dev (>= 2.1.6~) 
>   libtdb-dev (>= 1.3.8~) 
>   python-ldb (>= 2:1.1.26~) 
>   python-ldb-dev (>= 2:1.1.26~) 
>   python-talloc-dev (>= 2.1.6~) 
>   python-tdb (>= 1.3.8~) 
> 
> So, please could you consider to backport Samba to Jessie to solve the problem 
> of Windows 10 compatibility?

Unfortunately we can't do this at the moment. The Samba
packaging team in Debian is low on time, and we already struggle to
keep all packages in the archive up to date when security fixes
are released.

Backports of Samba would indeed be great, and are regularly requested.
Help would be great.

Cheers,

Jelmer