[Pkg-samba-maint] Debian local patches and Samba

[Andrew Bartlett]

Michael,

Just a note following up from some comments on Bug#971249.

In the past it has been the strong practice in Samba packaging on
Debian not to include local patches, except where those have already
been accepted upstream (eg backports from master). 

The rationale has been that this avoids divergence, forward-porting and
allows upstream to express and experienced judgement regarding the
patches.  It also ensures that, at least in combination with git
master, the patch passes CI (avoiding unwanted side-effects).

I think this has served us well, and I would continue to encourage the
submission of patches upstream via GitLab per 
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Contribute

If you have any difficulties with this process please discuss on samba-
technical, we remain glad to help ensure Samba is as good as possible
for Debian.

Andrew Bartlett
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