[Pkg-samba-maint] samba_4.17.3+dfsg-4_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2022-12-05 at 11:49 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> On 05.12.2022 10:23, Debian FTP Masters wrote:
> > 
> > samba-libs: lintian output: 'embedded-library usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libgssapi-samba4.so.0: heimdal', automatically rejected package.
> > samba-libs: If you have a good reason, you may override this lintian tag.
> > 
> > binary:samba-ad-dc is NEW.
> > binary:samba-ad-provision is NEW.
> > binary:samba-ad-dc is NEW.
> > binary:samba-ad-provision is NEW.
> 
> Hello!
> 
> What should I do here? Yes, samba carries an embedded heimdal copy for many
> years, this is a known fact. There was an lintian override for this in the
> past, but now with lintian in testing, that override has become unused and
> I removed it. I tried to keep other lintian overrides to be compatible with
> both unstable and stable, but not in this case.
> 
> The release is already tagged in salsa git repository.
> 
> Thanks,
> /mjt

Also, just to be clear to others, the Heimdal version we embed is:
 - based on a prerelease of Heimdal 8.0
 - modified for Samba's requirements. 

So it is not possible to avoid, and the vendoring is an explicit
upstream choice due to the need to make modifications across the
interface, particularly for security releases.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett (he/him) https://samba.org/~abartlet/
Samba Team Member (since 2001) https://samba.org
Samba Developer, Catalyst IT https://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba

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