[Pkg-samba-maint] 3.6.0pre1 is ready....

[Luk Claes]

On 08/04/2010 04:13 AM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 12:07:46PM -0400, Noël Köthe wrote:
> 
>> From a system administrator point of view I would prefer to choose b) to
>> not ship squeeze with a too old version of samba which will help the
>> user of squeeze with support by upstream and lower the versions we have
>> to care about after the release(lenny 3.2, squeeze 3.5, >=sid 3.6 or
>> what the latest version will be).
> 
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 10:48:59PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
>> As a sysadmin I would also prefer to have 3.5 in squeeze and thus in
>> unstable until release time.
> 
> And as Debian Samba Maintainers, what is your opinion? :-)  Does it matter
> from a package maintenance POV?  Does having a slightly longer (but still
> short) period immediately after the release when Samba backports are not in
> use make that much of a difference?
> 
> Anyway, I've presented the case for keeping 3.4 in the release.  If this was
> not persuasive, we should go ahead with 3.5 in unstable.

I guess with the current freeze announcement we will stay with 3.4 in
unstable/squeeze and we should probably at least provide unofficial
Debian packages for 3.6 prerelease already, maybe even in experimental.

Btw, is upstream aware that both Ubuntu and Debian will want to support
3.4 for a long time?

Cheers

Luk