[Pkg-samba-maint] samba4 upload?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 05:37:39PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Now that I issued a call for translations for debconf tempaltes of
> samba4, and committed incoming updates, would you mind uploading a new
> version of the samma4 package to unstable?
Thanks again for handling the translations.

Now that upstream has a combined 3.x/4.x branch and since it has been
decided that the next release will be 4.0, I think it makes
sense to start looking at creating a merged source package as well and
(eventually) putting that in experimental.

For the most part, this will just be in stitching the contents of the
samba and samba4 source packages together.

Upstream is going to stop shipping some of the tools that are
currently duplicated between Samba 3 and Samba 4, such as smbclient
and nmblookup, so the conflicts that currently exist between
some of the Samba 3 and Samba 4 binary packages will go away.

It would probably make sense to keep two distinctive packages for
the traditional filesharing daemons and the Active Directory
daemon (from Samba 4, but named "samba"). Perhaps 'samba' (for the
filesharing daemons) and 'samba-ad' (for the AD daemon) ?

Cheers,

Jelmer