[Pkg-samba-maint] Samba 4.0: Upload to unstable.

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 10:07 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 09:44:42PM -0700, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Sat, 2013-09-14 at 14:25 +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > > This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script.
> > > 
> > > jelmer pushed a commit to branch samba_4.0_integration
> > > in repository samba.
> > > 
> > > commit bf062149e977f90df5a1a23b4050438e0e8f9988
> > > Author: Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org>
> > > Date:   Sat Sep 14 14:50:10 2013 +0100
> > > 
> > >     Upload to unstable.
> > 
> > Just curious, how is the 4.0 packaging going?  Are we ready for or
> > pending for unstable?
> 
> We've got a package that moves most of the libs into the samba-libs
> package, but I haven't done much testing of it.
> 
> Steve asked about splitting the samba-libs package on client/server
> lines. There is no obvious way to do such a split, but I haven't had
> time to prove that it can't be done.

I would prove it this way:

Is samba-tool a client or server tool?  The reality is that it is both,
and needs the full dsdb stack (server) as well as client libs.  A
'client binaries' package missing samba-tool would feel quite limited.  

The same applies to smbpasswd and net, which links to passdb but is also
a client tool.  

Yes, we do have some pure clients, like smbclient, but explaining to
users why we have a partial 'clients' package seems harder than
explaining that we just have one library package. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org


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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org