[Pkg-samba-maint] cifs-utils 6.9

[Mathieu Parent (Debian)]

Le ven. 31 mai 2019 à 23:38, Pavel Shilovsky <pshilovsky at samba.org> a écrit :
>
> Hi Mathieu and Debian Samba Maintainers,

Hi,

> This is Pavel from Samba team. We recently released a new version of
> cifs-utils 6.9 which contains some features that are important to
> Azure Files:
>
> https://git.samba.org/?p=cifs-utils.git
>
> The list of important features from 6.9:
>
> - mounting share snapshots with GMT token (currently only SMB
> 100-nanoseconds time is supported which isn't convenient and
> straightforward) and capability to list snapshots (through new smbinfo
> utility),
> - automatic DNS resolution on reconnect when the server IP changes
> (without the need to re-mount a share),
> - improved and fixed setcifsacl and getcifsacl utilities.
>
> Currently Debian has the old version 6.8 even in sid and Ubuntu seems
> to just copy what Debian has. We would like to have the latest version
> of cifs-utils available on both Debian and Ubuntu, so their users can
> have the best experience with Azure Files and other SMB servers.
>
> Do you have any timeline when the latest versions of packages are
> usually picked up to sid?

Debian testing is currently hard-frozen to prepare the release of
Debian 10 (buster). This is too late...

Sending to Andreas from Canonical for the Ubuntu response.

Regards

-- 
Mathieu Parent