[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#988197: Bug#988197: patch for samba which fixes legacy printing support

[Mateusz Mikołajczyk]

actually, I thought that I couldn't do this but on a second thought as I
understand I'd simply have to change all my entries in sources.list from
buster to bullseye ? I'm using armbian if that's relevant to the story :)

pon., 10 maj 2021 o 10:44 Mathieu Parent <math.parent at gmail.com> napisał(a):

> Le ven. 7 mai 2021 à 15:24, Mateusz Mikołajczyk
> <mikolajczyk.mateusz at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> > Package: samba
> > Version: 4.9.5+dfsg-5+deb10u1
> >
> > I was testing samba with an really old DOS client. it turns out that
> ever since samba 3.2.0 there was an upstream change that broke this legacy
> printing support. It was already merged upstream but the patch is super
> tiny - a one liner:
> >
> >
> https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba/-/commit/47d79d7e7e406f7dd204ded7c72cfed3e0761ad5
> >
> > I was wondering, would it be possible to add it as a patch to debian
> buster? Currently I figured out a way to apply it - I simply build samba
> .deb package from source (i.e. deb-src), manually apply the patch and then
> install local version of the package. That's all great until I'm testing
> this on x86 architecture (because the compilation is relatively quick),
> however I intend to put everything to sbc board as a headless print server.
> In order to avoid compilation on the sbc, I could create a virtual machine
> and do a cross-compilation but it seems like a massive overkill just to
> introduce a one-liner patch, plus it wouldn't survive any of the potential
> upgrades
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm sorry, but I won't apply this patch to buster. You can use bullseye
> instead.
>
> Regards
> --
> Mathieu Parent
>


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Mateusz Mikołajczyk, a.k.a. toudi
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