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

[Michael Tokarev]

23.03.2022 11:37, L. van Belle wrote:
> Good morning,

Hi!

> If we have these extra steps to import the sources of the subpackages,
> i can easly use my package and changes for the debian.tar.gz
> It does save some time here.

That doesn't really work, for at least 2 reasons. First, I really prefer
to have each change separately in the debian git tree - besides the final
state in debian.tar.*.  And second, importing you packages prevents me
from learning.. :))  The most important here to me is to understand
what's going on and what do we have here and why, this is done only in
the process. Later on it can be benefitical to have ready-to-use import-
ready stuff, but having in mind the current packaging nuances I prefer
to try to do it myself.

> For my packages of samba i use this order to build packages.
> 
> 01-talloc  02-tevent  03-tdb  04-cmocka  05-ldb
> 06-nss-wrapper  07-resolv-wrapper  08-uid-wrapper  09-socket-wrapper
> 10-pam-wrapper  11-salsa  11-samba

> (* optional or needed als build deb)
> 12-cifs-utils  12-liburing-ubuntu  12-wsdd2  13-dwz  14-debhelper

Um. I haven't heard of all the *-wrapper packages. Are they somehow
related to samba? And what about salsa, is it tied with samba too?

> At least its for me a clear and good work order.

Yes, that should work: first the base blocks, more complex things later.

> Based on the ldb 2.5.0, your prepairing for samba 4.16.0 correct?
> I had a small look here.
> https://salsa.debian.org/mjt/ldb/-/blob/master/debian/changelog
> I noticed tdb 1.4.5

Yes. My original plan was to update to 4.15 first and later update
to 4.16. But I didn't know how all the samba-related sources are
organized in debian.  Now I know, and despite 4.16 is shiny new
release, I changed my initial plan and intend to package this one
instead of 4.15.x.

> Keep in mind that samba 4.16 needs tdb 1.4.6
> Something im always wondering about, in these cases..
> Like ldb needs minimal tdb 1.4.5, and samba minimal 1.4.6
> Whats preffered here to keep the ldb with its minimal version
> Or up the version to same as what samba needs, since these are tight
> togeter.

This does not really matter. I looked at the changes between several
pairs of minor versions of tdb - these are rather minor indeed, mostly
bugfixes. So ldb which works with 1.4.5 will work with 1.4.6 just fine.
I can have specified >>1.4.6 in ldb's build-deps, - for ldb this is
irrelevant. I'll update tdb before trying to update samba.

Also, all these will just go away once ldb will be built from samba
source as it apparently should. I plan to address this once we'll
have 4.16 in.

> I see great work here michael.
> 1 question, can you add the steps in the sub packages, like the example of
> samba ;
> https://salsa.debian.org/samba-team/samba/blob/master/debian/README.source.md

Yes. samba's README.source needs some update too.  But lemme get
familiar with the process myself ;) The ldb repository is my first
attempt, and I'm not completely sure yet if I did everything right :)

> If thats done, i can add all sub packages in, since i already have them.
> Im preparing to chipin also here as soon i can.
> But as said, i need some more instuctions on these subpackages.
> you *(and offcoure the other guys in here) have the skills i miss.
> 
> Like, im stuck myself with 4.16.0 and the office is claiming my time
> currently,
> the change is to big for me to make in the time i have.
> All my sub packages are done, i have them in internal apt repo.
> If you want i can upload these to the external one, it might save you some
> time.

Yeah, that might be interesting. 4.16 should need some extra work due to
the new dcerpc binary. And they also updated bundled heimdal which needs
some attention too. I'll come to that next :)

Thank you!

/mjt