[Pkg-samba-maint] upload of samba 4.7.6

[Andreas Hasenack]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 9:51 AM, Mathieu Parent (Debian) <sathieu at debian.org
> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 2018-03-14 13:36 GMT+01:00 Andreas Hasenack <andreas at canonical.com>:
> > Hi guys, (CCing Mathieu because I'm not sure he is in the list, sorry if
> you
> > get dupes, and is listed a lot in d/changelog)
> >
> > just checking in to see if you are about to upload 4.7.6 to Debian. I
> would
> > like to do that for Ubuntu, following Andrew's request (and reasoning) in
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1755059 and
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1755057. The
> secfixes
> > have patches, but the corruption bug patch is quite big, around 100Kb.
> >
> > Unfortunately the orig tarball is a dfsg one, so if I generate one myself
> > there is no guarantee that its md5 will match what Debian will generate,
> > even though the content will be the same (different compression levels
> could
> > cause that md5 to differ, for example).
> >
> > To avoid that, my plan is to use a version like
> 4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu1
> > for the Ubuntu package, so that when the time comes to merge with Debian
> > again, the version is different and we would avoid a potential hash
> mismatch
> > between the orig tarballs.
> >
> > Since we are in feature freeze mode, I'm starting on that now. These two
> > version bumps contain only bugfixes, so I can still upload it. But if you
> > are just about to upload 4.7.6 yourselves, then I wouldn't have to use
> this
> > odd/long version for the Ubuntu package. I also saw that the delta
> between
> > our packages was greatly reduced in your last 4.7.4 upload, which is
> great.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
>
> Why not use 2:4.7.4+dfsg-2 which contains those two fixes?
>
> (Alternatively, you can use our tarball, it's even in the pristine-tar
> branch.)
>
>
Maybe I misunderstood, but did you mean you had 4.7.6 in the pristine-tar
branch? I only see 4.7.4 there:

((c2eea70d64...))andreas at nsnx:~/git/debian/salsa/samba$ git log|head
commit c2eea70d648df3f99801d8dace8e5dc88bb5301d (HEAD, origin/pristine-tar,
andreas/pristine-tar)
Author: Mathieu Parent <math.parent at gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 10 08:23:39 2018 +0100

    pristine-tar data for samba_4.7.4+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
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