[Pkg-samba-maint] Samba 4.7 and beyond

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2017-10-13 at 22:08 +0200, Mathieu Parent wrote:
> Hello pkg-samba team,
> 
> I've uploaded samba 4.7 to experimental (with the necessary libs).
> Please test it!
> 
> I have some concerns before uploading to sid (those questions are
> mostly to Andrew and Jelmer, as you know the internals well):
> - the move of replace from builtin to bundled libraries should
> probably be reverted. 

Can you explain this a bit more?  It it just a compatibility lib, has
no ABI and should be tightly bound to each component. 

> But how to fix the FTBFS?
> - patches 05_share_ldb_module and 07_private_lib: Are they still usefull?
> 
> 
> And some mid-term questions:
> - embedded Heimdal: Can we move to the system one?

No.  Gary and I tried to upgrade the in-tree version and after making
it build (tricky enough), it failed make test in strange ways. 

> - packages are currently python 2 only: How to python 3?

Wait for Red Hat or others to finish the work. 

> - #876984: Porting from python-gpgme to python-pgp
> - Can Add-documentation-to-systemd-Unit-files.patch,
> fix_kill_path_in_units.patch, nmbd-requires-a-working-network.patch,
> systemd-syslog.target-is-obsolete.patch be upstreamed (submitted in
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12402)?
> - Should no_build_system.patch be upstreamed?

Yes.  I'm sorry we missed it, but it needs to remove the reference to
BUILD_SYSTEM entirely, not just patch the waf.

> - Do we re-enable the selftest during build?

No.  Still not reliable enough. 

I hope this helps,

Andrew Bartlett


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