<div dir="ltr">Hi Roberto<div><br></div><div>When you write that the latest patches do not apply cleanly. Do you mean that the code is substantially different so even a manual apply is difficult or do you just mean that the patches do not apply cleanly when running the patch command?</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div><br></div><div>// Ola</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 March 2017 at 16:29, Roberto C. Sánchez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roberto@connexer.com" target="_blank">roberto@connexer.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">LTS folks,<br>
<br>
Based on Mathieu's comment related to the most recent samba patches not<br>
applying cleanly to the version in wheezy, it seems that an update to<br>
the latest upstream 3.6 release might be necessary. That said, I have<br>
looked at the diffstat between the version in wheezy (3.6.6) and 3.6.25,<br>
the latest upstream release in that series.<br>
<br>
The changes are rather substantial. The diffstat finishes with this:<br>
<br>
258 files changed, 8344 insertions(+), 3246 deletions(-)<br>
<br>
Note that 1460 of the insertions are new lines in WHATSNEW.txt.<br>
<br>
That said, I have some questions:<br>
<br>
 - Is this something that is feasible?<br>
 - What sort of testing would be required?<br>
 - Does it makes sense to go ahead and start updating to 3.6.25?<br>
<br>
If the patch provided by upstream is to apply cleanly, then Mathieu's<br>
comment makes me think that updating to 3.6.25 is a necessary<br>
precondition of utilizing that patch. If that is the path to take, I<br>
think it makes sense to package 3.6.25 and begin testing it, then once<br>
the current regressions (#858564, #858590, and possibly another) are<br>
resolved apply the final patch from upstream.<br>
<br>
Another possibility would be to stick with 3.6.6. and attempt to<br>
backport the patch. I am not a samba developer and while I think I am<br>
sufficiently capable to backport the patch, I am also concerned that I<br>
may miss something. Samba is sufficiently complex to make me prefer the<br>
clean application of a patch from upstream.<br>
<br>
Given that samba is a very widely used and rather important package, I<br>
feel it prudent to solicit comments and suggestions on this.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
-Roberto<br>
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