[Pkg-samba-maint] debconf bof today august 15 at 17u30 about debian samba packages

[Ivo De Decker]

Hello,

For the people who are at debconf right now:

There are a number of issues remaining in the samba package currently in
experimental. To help streamline the efforts to fix those, I'm proposing to
have a bof at debconf. As there are almost no timeslots left on the official
schedule, it will have to be an informal bof. I'm proposing to meet TODAY
(Thursday) at 17u30 in bof room 2.

Everybody who is interested in the debian samba packages is welcome.

Some issues we might want to talk about:

- consider shipping the smbd and the AD DC in the same package, instead of
  having a separate samba-ad-dc package
- options for restructuring the init scripts, inspired by:
  - naming and functionality of the new 'samba' daemon (vs the 'samba' init
	script)
  - consistency with split daemon scripts for upstart/systemd
- the dependencies between the packages are currently broken: a number of
  dependencies are missing, and if we would add them all, we would probably
  get a number of circular dependencies
- are there upgrade issues when going from samba 3.6 (wheezy) to samba 4.x
- what needs to be fixed before an upload to unstable, and what could possibly
  wait till later
- new people interested in helping out with the samba packaging
- setting up test infrastructure for the samba packages
- other issues anybody wants to bring up

As always, people not attending the bof can send remarks to the mailing list
(both before and after the bof).


Cheers,

Ivo