[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#833287: feedback request about patch

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2017-06-13 at 12:12 -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this bug was also filed against Ubuntu as https://bugs.launchpad.net/
> ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1584485, and in https://bugs.launchpad.net/
> ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1584485/comments/17 a patch was proposed to
> build libnss-winbind and libpam-winbind statically against the samba-
> libs.
> 
> That introduced a regression (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1677329
> ), however: pam_winbind had unresolved symbols at runtime and
> couldn't be loaded. The patch was reverted, and by mistake added back
> again at some later point.
> 
> I'm linking a new version of that patch that fixes the regression,
> but I'm not familiar with the samba4 buildsystem and would like some
> feedback. I'm still working on the DEP3 header, the history of this
> one is a bit complicated.

It is best to go to samba-technical for this kind of feedback.  We
really would prefer this kind of patch was upstream, not in packages.

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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