[Pkg-samba-maint] samba 4.10?

[Arvid Requate]

Hello,

Am Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2019, 20:51:53 CET schrieb Mathieu Parent:
> Le jeu. 21 févr. 2019 à 18:28, Andreas Hasenack
> 
> <andreas at canonical.com> a écrit :
> > Hi Mathieu,
> 
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> > have you started work on packaging samba 4.10 in debian somewhere?
> 
> No.
> 
> > We
> > are trying to get rid of python2 in main and really want to ship 4.10
> > in Ubuntu Disco.
> > 
> > I'm about to start working on that, but would not want to diverge from
> > Debian if I can avoid it.
> 
> Buster is currently frozen and will ship with 4.9. However, we can
> work on experimental about this. Do you want "Developer" access?
> 
> Also, disco is in two month, this looks very short as 4.10 changes the
> whole python stuff. Maybe you can stick with 4.9 for disco and we can
> work together after?
> 
> Regards

Just a quick heads up about a Samba 4.10 packaging experience:
I've used uupdate to build a Debian package with Samba 4.10rc2 and feared the 
upstream python changes but that turned out to be a non-issue, at least for a 
Stretch based build environment (python2.7). I just had to patch a single 
python waf module which aborted due to some unicode vs str assertion. I guess 
it's as easy for a python3 based environment. The dependency chain to ldb 
1.5.3 and cmocka 1.1.3 caused more iterations for me, because my uupdated 
cmocka source package somehow FTBFS, but that was probably just me.

Cheers,
Arvid




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