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

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2022-03-24 at 10:28 +0100, Mathieu Parent wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 10:11 AM Michael Tokarev <mjt at tls.msk.ru>
> 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).
> 
> RFCs are non-free because we don't have the right to modify.
> 
> About removing third_party/heimdal/doc/standardisation, ensure those
> are not used during the build. RFCs are, that's why we have a big
> patch with truncated RFCs as rfc3454.txt-table.

I couldn't see any reference to doc/standardisation in the build
scripts.  The unicode table is the only one I'm aware of.

> @abartlett: More generally, about Heimdal, what is the diff now to
> vanilia Heimdal. Could we use system heimdal?

Still a pile of changes, but less than historically.  And we might, eg
if doing a security release, have to change things without warning and
if you don't like coordinated ldb releses, you will hate trying to
patch whatever Heimdal is in Debian stable to match Samba...

https://gitlab.com/samba-team/devel/lorikeet-heimdal/-/compare/master...lorikeet-heimdal-202203101709?from_project_id=8198248

Andrew Bartlett

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