[Pkg-samba-maint] r1179 - trunk

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 08:51:51AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:
> > This is fine with me, fwiw, though I hope you realize that one of the
> > consequences is users who had an old version of samba installed and
> > removed it before sarge without purging it will not have a clean
> > upgrade path.

> Well, duh, do we need to support that?  Maybe we should.

I think it would be a better user experience if we did... for a
diminishingly small number of users.

> On the other hand, it's clear that this situation is never tested, and 
> some of the upgrade support would likely not have worked at all.

What do you mean?  The only bug with the upgrade path that I saw was that it
had been using a deprecated syntax for passdb backend, and this is now fixed
-- and testing wouldn't have mattered until upstream made the change that
broke it, which is when we caught it.

> The release criteria and such don't actually explain what upgrade 
> support is expected.

Release criteria will only explain what upgrade support is /required/. :)

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