[Pkg-samba-maint] cifs-utils 6.9

[Andreas Hasenack]

Hi Mathieu and Pavel,

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 6:50 AM Mathieu Parent (Debian)
<sathieu at debian.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

I'll try to get it into Ubuntu, and sync back to debian later, or
maybe experimental.

Thanks for the ping!