[Pkg-samba-maint] Patches in the 4.0 package

Jeroen Dekkers jeroen at dekkers.ch
Sun Sep 8 16:19:39 UTC 2013


At Sat, 7 Sep 2013 21:06:40 +0200,
Ivo De Decker wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 08:16:34PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> > I was looking at the patches that are currently in git and I am not
> > sure whether we still need these two:
> > 
> > 05_share_ldb_module
> > 
> > It disables ldb share module to prevent circular dependencies
> > according to the git history. Is that still a problem?
> > (http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-samba/samba4.git;a=commit;h=3cc727913e0871fa1538901d3b186f1b9949a2c1)
> > 
> > 10_messaging_subsystem
> > 
> > It turns messaging subsystem into a public library, I can't find a
> > reason for doing so in the git history. It seems to me that if
> > upstream considers it private, we shouldn't make it a public
> > library. And if there is a good reason we should document that in the
> > patch.
> 
> Jeroen,
> 
> Did you look in the bzr history of the samba4 package?
> 
> I don't really know the answer to both questions, but you could add a note to
> each of these patches, so that your remark is visible to people reviewing the
> patches in the future.

I looked at the history, but didn't find much information about the
patches. I was hoping Jelmer would remember something. If nobody knows
why they are needed, we should probably just remove them and see if
anything breaks.



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