[Pkg-samba-maint] Fwd: [Announce] Samba 4.6.1, 4.5.7 and 4.4.12 Security Releases Available for Download

[Roberto C. Sánchez]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:34:44AM +0200, Mathieu Parent wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2017-03-26 14:39 GMT+02:00 Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto at connexer.com>:
> > On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:30:09AM +0100, Mathieu Parent wrote:
> >>
> >> See attached the backported patches for 3.6 (those are from the samba
> >> bugzilla which is still embargoed).
> >>
> >> Please take care of it.
> >>
> >
> > Hi Mathieu,
> >
> > I wanted to let you know that I had to make a minor tweak to patch 08/15
> > in order to get the build to succeed on wheezy.  I wanted let everyone
> > know in the event that I have missed something important and for general
> > awareness.
> 
> Again, don't upload yet. We have 2 regressions (maybe 3) in jessie.
> 
Yes, of course.  I am still waiting for the resolution of at least
#858564 and #858590.

> > I had to change this hunk:
> [...]
> 
> Me too, I'm not a samba developer. If a patch doesn't apply, it's
> because of one in debian/patches, or
> maybe a requirement from 3.6.
> 
> debian wheezy is based on 3.6.6, while latest 3.6 is 3.6.25. Maybe the
> first thing to do is to update to 3.6.25.
> 
OK.  I did wonder at first why jessie was updated to the latest 4.2 but
wheezy was not updated to the latest 3.6.

> >
> > The resolution for this one is not obvious to me.  I intend to dig into
> > it, but if anyone has a suggestion, I welcome it.
> 
> Don't change the patches. They should apply cleanly.
> 
OK.  That is good to know.

> Hope this helps.
> 
It does help.  I certainly don't want to cause a problem with a package
so widely used as Samba.

Regards,

-Roberto

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