[Pkg-samba-maint] another upload to -exp or to unstable?

Mathieu Parent math.parent at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 13:08:35 BST 2022


On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 11:03 AM Michael Tokarev <mjt at tls.msk.ru> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> At this stage, I wonder if we should continue waiting
> for the python mess, or can just go and use this mess
> for our advantage, treating current unstable like some
> sort of experimental but with much larger audience.. :)
>
> I don't see a way for python-defaults to migrate any time
> soon, many things are waiting there.  All samba-related
> packages are okay, either current or new. So we maybe can
> upload the thing to let people to try it out... and fix
> any reported issue, if any, before whole thing is migrated.
>
> Not sure it is fair, but heck..

Yes. +1 for uploading to unstable.

> Louis, I think it is okay for you to make the packages
> available on your site if you want to. I hope anyway, -
> I see no obvious issues in there.
>
> For older systems which needs updates for tdb/talloc/tevent, -
> I think we can even make it conditional and build just
> everything from samba source directly, in a way similar
> to how ldb is built. Once we learned how to do that, it
> become easy.  I don't know if it's a good idea doing
> in general, though.

It's up to you here, as you are the active maintainer currently.

Having a backport we be great also.

-- 
Mathieu Parent



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