[Pkg-samba-maint] upload of samba 4.7.6

[Andreas Hasenack]

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!
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