[Pkg-samba-maint] Target for squeeze: 3.4 or 3.5?

[Christian PERRIER]

Samba 3.5.0 should be released by Feb 16th. That raises the question
of what we want to have for Squeeze.

Either we can stick with the now quite rock solid 3.4 versions or we
can follow upstream and go with 3.5.

The risk we're taking by going for 3.5 is freezing with a quite early
minor release (say 3.5.0 or 3.5.1 or something) and then be stuck with
it while upstream consolides 3.5.

The risk we're taking by going for 3.4 is an early EOL in upstream
release cycle.

It seems to me that we'd better go for 3.5, with the main argument
that Windows 7 support is likely to be a good driving force and it is
likely that upstream improves it more in 3.5 than 3.4....

Also, given the quite conservative approach taken by upstream, I think
we could quite easily spot the patches we can backport in the squeeze
version after the release of squeeze. Also, with my experience of the
Debian freeze schedules and the current status of the project, I feel
like we're not likely to release before Summer 2010.

So, at first glance, I would prefer going with 3.5. Steve, would that
fit with Ubuntu release schedule, particularly for 10.04 (I never
remember what funky name you guys decided to give to that one)?

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