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

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2022-03-24 at 12:10 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 24.03.2022 11:51, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 
> > The RFCs are what comes to mind, if the old scripts only remove
> > some
> > files by name that might need updating.
> 
> Can I assume the drafts are also of this same nature? Samba-4.16 has
> whole bunch of stuff in third_party/heimdal/doc/standardisation/ - I
> think we can add this directory into gbp.conf's exclude list,
> together
> with existing third_party/heimdal/lib/wind/rfc*.txt (moved).

Correct, just remove/blacklist those.  Perhaps someday we can work with
upstream to get those removed to a different repo. 

> [..]
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Was that a hot potato or a hot grenade I saw passed your way?
> 
> Heh. I love this attitude. And I've no idea what did you throw at
> me with your "good luck making it DFSG-free" comment ;))

:-)

> > More seriously, I do thank you for stepping up, new energy has been
> > needed in this space for a long time.
> 
> I just need it to work. After hitting *major* pain with #1005642 I
> realized I should do something with the situation, fixing damaged
> user
> data is much more problematic.

Thanks for looking into that.  Our users need maintainers like you.

> [..]
> > I would love to see 4.16 packaged.  That would help everyone as it
> 
> Yeah this is definitely a plan Andrew. I was just over-optimistic
> after your comment :) And started thinking maybe it's a better
> idea to start from some smaller step, thinking the non-DFSG part
> in heimdal will be real PITA to deal with :)

I don't know of any other problems, and upstream Heimdal is committed
to being open source.  The Debian Heimdal package would also have a
good reference also.

I mention all this because in the past Samba only included (for
example) the .c files it built from, but now includes the full
checkout.  So there is just much more stuff in there than previously,
which is now the whole doc/standardization thing arrived. 

Andrew,

> Thank you!
> 
> /mjt
> 
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