[Pkg-samba-maint] Old versions of Samba in Debian

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sun, 2019-09-08 at 23:10 +0200, Mathieu Parent wrote:
> Most of the time, security fixes were applicable in older versions
> without problem.

I just want to give a word of warning.  The Samba Team means it when we
say we don't support older versions.  We don't go out of our way
looking for issues in older versions and you may have seen the mess we
got into when I tried to patch Samba 4.5 for ldb issues.  

That is, in Samba we simple don't have a good/functioning process for
the issues that don't impact our supported versions. 

I realise that cuts directly across everything it means to be Debian,
and I don't know a good solution.  

We can't lean on Red Hat et al to support the older versions because
they don't ship the AD DC.  

Indeed I would favour having the AD DC self-disable once debian becomes
old-stable (but I know that is not practical).  It certainly should be
pulled from debian-lts.

Andrew Bartlett

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