[Pkg-samba-maint] Situation of various samba packages

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 07:27:09AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Related packages:
>       talloc, ldb, tdb: well maintained by Jelmer who's upstream
>                    I haven't checked but I guess that both are in
>                    testing now

The talloc currently in unstable has insufficiently strict shlibs.  I've
committed a fix for that to svn; it would be good to have this fix in lenny,
so that we can bump the versioned build-dep on samba 3.2.

The tdb shared library is not currently used by samba (but it is used by
lots of other stuff, great!).  I forget now why we didn't use it, perhaps
that's something to revisit yet for lenny?

>       ctdb: good support by Mathieu (who just began the NM process)
>             Should we consider it for testing?
>             Will we build samba 3.2.0 with it?

That might be one we should file a bug report against samba for, so we can
discuss any issues in a central place and not forget about it.

>       openchange: Jelmer is upstream as well. Not a candidate
>                   for testing because it depends on some samba4 stuff
>                   IIRC, but something that should go in unstable

I've been reviewing the package in svn per Jelmer's request; I hope to be
done today, but a few things take precedence (like getting samba 3.2.0
uploaded to unstable).

Cheers,
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