[Pkg-samba-maint] Re: samba from experimental uninstallable --> future of Samba 4 packages

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 10:49:07PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > > It is nearly 100% likely that we'll have to keep both Samba 3 (for
> > > file and print services) and Samba 4 (for AD stuff) at the same time
> > > in the archive.

> > Given that we want to release lenny with Samba 4 at all. I don't think we
> > want to.

> Well, that is probably not clear enough but what seems clear is that
> we will certainly need to have both versions in the archive at the same
> time at some moment.

> So, we'd better prepare for this ASAP, which certainly includes the
> etch->lenny release cycle.

> After some talks around here, working to allow both set of packages
> installed simultaneously on the same machine is probably not worth it,
> so we can probably make hypothetical samba and samba4 packages mutually
> exclusive. This seems to rejoin Steve's opinion in this thread, indeed.

> I'm still deeply convinced that keeping the current situation with
> samba(==samba3) packages in unstable/testing and samba4 packages in
> experimental is a handicap.

Sorry, in what sense is this a handicap?  If we're agreed that samba4 isn't
going to be suitable for inclusion in the lenny release, and that samba3 and
samba4 aren't going to be used on the same systems for the foreseeable
future, what's the rush to change how an experimental-only package is being
built?

Sure, if someone is interested in this and thinks having different package
names would help, I have no objection, but I just don't see much urgency
here...

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