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

[Michael Tokarev]

23.03.2022 12:34, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
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>> 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 :)
> 
> Yes, a massive update there.  Have fun making the new massive import
> DFSG-safe, as we now take the full tree, not just the files we were
> building.

Andrew, can you share some information here? What is non-dfsg in here,
besides the RFCs (it was a surprise to me that RFC texts are non-DFSG-compliant).

I hate it when one piece of software - especially when it is already included
in debian - is distributed inside another piece of software.  So the natural
wish is to use the already packaging heimdal to start with, but for that I
definitely does not have enough experience, if it is at all possible with
current samba.

After looking at all this, I'm somewhat lost here. I didn't expect this to
take *this* much work. It is not the work which bothers me, but that I still
don't have understanding about which side to attack it all. I have to start
with *something* which is manageable more or less short-term.

Sure we'll have to deal with 4.16 at some point. But at this time I think it
might be a good idea to package 4.15 first (which was my initial intention)
just to become a bit more familiar with whole thing (including switching to
embedded ldb), and next try to address this heimdal thing.

Maybe even updating to 4.13.17 for a start (with embedded ldb being next)
is already a good step further :) I think it should be done anyway (but
without ldb) for bullseye.

Anyway, I'd love to understand what's up with heimdal and DFSG.

Thank you!

/mjt