[Pkg-samba-maint] Dropping swat...

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Fri May 17 12:15:01 UTC 2013


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 09:59:49AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Considering that upstream is planning to drop swat at one moment or
> another, we just discussed about dropping it from the samba 4.0.x
> packages.
> 
> Obviously, that will leave some users in the wild but I don't really
> see any way to avoid that as, clearly, nobody stepped up to keep it
> maintained.
> 
> We will then have to decide what is the less worse option for our users....
> 
> Please comment!
+1 on dropping SWAT. 4.0 seems like a good moment to do so.

SWAT has never really made it beyond the stage of key/value pair editor. It should
have been deprecated a long time ago. 

Cheers,

Jelmer



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