[Pkg-samba-maint] updating samba to current upstream

[Michael Tokarev]

22.03.2022 22:25, Mathieu Parent wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 7:50 PM Michael Tokarev <mjt at tls.msk.ru> wrote:
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>> Only after that I realized I need to update all libs *first* (tdb/talloc/tevent/ldb)
>> *before* updating samba.  I'm doing this now, hopefully to be ready by tomorrow.

So this come as a big surprise to me.

What's the rationaly behind making separate (tdb/talloc/ldb/tevent) source packages
out of single samba upstream source?  I have never seen a case when upstream source
is split into several source packages in debian, before :)

I guess it is historic, like it was a separate upstream package before, but later
on they merged it into single samba source.  Again, some background is welcome,
so I understand what's going on there.

We had long story with qemu and its fork under name "kvm" which later has been
renamed to "qemu-kvm" and finally merged into qemu source, making lots of
confusions on the way, also swallowing a library (libslirp) and later making it
separate again. So I know some drills in this area :)

What's the problem with making it all to build from one source, like the ldb
"merge" MR is trying to do?

Mathieu, you said the resulting libldb does not work right when building some
other software (sssd). What's the difference between the two resulting .debs -
one built from "separate" ldb source and one built as part of samba build?
Why not fix the differences?

Looking at your MR, I see you imported some files in debian/ from ldb source
package and later updated them to match samba package layout, and at the same
time, some files were moved to a different subdir (ldb => samba). Maybe it's
a good idea to move them "back"?

Why sssd does not build, does it expect ldb headers in the "wrong" place?
Did you compare the two builds?

It'd be nice to have some more context in some patches, - eg, in
Force-LDB-as-standalone.patch - why it is needed (I haven't yet understand
how the build system works - maybe after my understanding there will be no
need for a comment :) ).

That's too many questions probably.

The thing is: I really hate doing unnecessary work. And updating all the
split-out packages out of the SAME source is really unnecessary extra work.

I'd better spend time to make a way to eliminate the need for this
unnecessary work _before_ doing this unnecessary work :) Yes I know,
sometimes this is not possible. But it looks like this is not the case :)

Thanks!

/mjt