[Pkg-samba-maint] upload of samba 4.7.6

[Mathieu Parent (Debian)]

Hello,

2018-03-14 13:36 GMT+01:00 Andreas Hasenack <andreas at canonical.com>:
> Hi guys, (CCing Mathieu because I'm not sure he is in the list, sorry if you
> get dupes, and is listed a lot in d/changelog)
>
> just checking in to see if you are about to upload 4.7.6 to Debian. I would
> like to do that for Ubuntu, following Andrew's request (and reasoning) in
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1755059 and
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1755057. The secfixes
> have patches, but the corruption bug patch is quite big, around 100Kb.
>
> Unfortunately the orig tarball is a dfsg one, so if I generate one myself
> there is no guarantee that its md5 will match what Debian will generate,
> even though the content will be the same (different compression levels could
> cause that md5 to differ, for example).
>
> To avoid that, my plan is to use a version like 4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu1
> for the Ubuntu package, so that when the time comes to merge with Debian
> again, the version is different and we would avoid a potential hash mismatch
> between the orig tarballs.
>
> Since we are in feature freeze mode, I'm starting on that now. These two
> version bumps contain only bugfixes, so I can still upload it. But if you
> are just about to upload 4.7.6 yourselves, then I wouldn't have to use this
> odd/long version for the Ubuntu package. I also saw that the delta between
> our packages was greatly reduced in your last 4.7.4 upload, which is great.
>
> Cheers!
>

Why not use 2:4.7.4+dfsg-2 which contains those two fixes?

(Alternatively, you can use our tarball, it's even in the pristine-tar branch.)

FYI I won't upload 4.7.6, and go straight to samba 4.8.0 in experimental first.

Regards
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Mathieu Parent