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

[Mathieu Parent]

2017-03-28 21:07 GMT+02:00 Ola Lundqvist <ola at inguza.com>:
> Hi Mathieu and Roberto

Hi,

> Mathieu, do you mean that they patches should apply cleanly and if they do
> not, then we have missed some other important patch, or do you just mean
> that they should generally apply cleanly?

I don't know for sure, but I think that if a hunk doesn't apply it is
an indication of
a change that may be a requirement.

For Roberto question on patch not applicable can be explained by:
https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=commitdiff;h=8234c6a3c7

This doesn't look to be a requirement (not related to path traversal).

> I'm asking as it is rather expected that patches do not apply cleanly when
> we are dealing with these old versions in wheezy. I do not want to give a
> precise estimate but something between 20 and 60% of the patches that I have
> applied to the packages I have done updates to in wheezy have not applied
> cleanly. Usually it is just minor things, but in some cases quite a lot of
> work have to be put in understanding the problem and finding out a new fix.
>
> We should not be afraid to do that kind of work.
>
> We do have the possibility to update to the latest software also in wheezy
> but that should really be done as a last resort, or only for packages that
> have a very good reputation on backwards compatibility. At least that is how
> I have understood the current practices. I mean we do not want to introduce
> unnecessary regressions.

The 3.6 branch was in maintenance mode since 2012-12-11, i.e after 3.6.10.
So it is probably better to only cherry-pick the fixes and continue
like Roberto did.

I can help the testing.

> Best regards

Regards

-- 
Mathieu