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

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):
> 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?

For instance to avoid having to take care of compeltely outdated
packages in experimental, which produced a few bug reports?


Or maybe because we might, at some moment, want to upload new releases
of samba in experimental, for instance when lenny will be frozen.

> 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...


Urgency is maybe because we are at the beginning of the release cycle
and this is time to prepare potentially disruptive changes.

Urgency is maybe also because I'm currently focused on samba for a
while and that won't last for months..:-)

Urgency also because Jelmer is motivated to begin pushing some parts
of samba4 in Debian.

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