[Pkg-samba-maint] Packaging 4.7?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2017-08-15 at 23:17 +0200, Mathieu Parent wrote:
> Andrew,
> 
> 
> 
> 2017-07-29 7:59 GMT+02:00 Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>:
> > I know it is a lot to think about, but it would be really good to
> > think
> > about packaging 4.7 as early as possible.
> > 
> > I'm going to start making a lot more fuss about the missing LDB
> > read
> > locking in 4.6 and below as we get closer to a release:
> > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12858
> > 
> > It would be good if we could get a package folks can use.  I
> > realise
> > that it is going to be difficult to backport (due to the required
> > ldb
> > changes), but it would be nice if there were an experimental
> > package
> > before we release 4.7.0, and an unstable one soon after.
> > 
> > (I also just think that 4.7 will be a really good Samba release)
> 
> I planned to do this, but unfortunately I don't have enough time.
> 
> I'll still try to work on this, but can't give any more info.

Thanks.  I know how much work it is, and I really appreciate your
efforts in packaging Samba.

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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