[Pkg-samba-maint] Debian Bug report #808769 and Samba 4.3.5 and/or Samba 4.4.0

[valdir.marcos at ig.com.br]

Bug #808769 is now closed:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=808769

Samba and ldb are now on their way to Debian Testing (stretch), and then
to Debian Stable (Jessie).

Thanks to all Samba Team and specially for Jelmer Vernooij.

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https://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=samba
Why is package X not in testing yet?
Checking samba

 trying to update samba from 2:4.1.17+dfsg-4 to 2:4.3.3+dfsg-2+b1
(candidate is 24 days old)
 samba is going in today 
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https://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=ldb
Why is package X not in testing yet?
Checking ldb

 trying to update ldb from 2:1.1.20-2 to 2:1.1.26-1 (candidate is 1 days
old)
 ldb is going in today 
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Em 25/02/2016 10:27, valdir.marcos at ig.com.br escreveu: 

> Hello, 
> 
> Sorry, my intention was not to press no one. I know how hard it is to maintain a Debian package. 
> 
> I didn't know that Jelmer Vernooij was alone on this task. 
> 
> I was just asking a question. 
> 
> The bug #808769 is one of the bugs that prevents recent versions of Samba to enter Testing since Samba 4.1.7 on 2015-02-25. 
> 
> Thanks for your information. 
> 
> Valdir 
> 
> Em 25/02/2016 02:51, Christian PERRIER escreveu: 
> 
> Quoting valdir.marcos at ig.com.br (valdir.marcos at ig.com.br):
> Does Samba 4.3.5 and/or Samba 4.4.0 solves Debian Bug report #808769 ? Samba 4.3.5 was released in February 23, 2016. https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.3 [1] Samba 4.4.0 is planned to be released in March 8, 2016. It's about two weeks from now. https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.4 [2] 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> You know, some maintainers of the package are also Samba Team members,
> so I suspect they're perectly aware of release dates and important
> bugs.
> 
> I have no idea whether the bugs you mention are important or
> not....but I suspect that an upload of Samba 4.3.5 will happen soon
> and 4.4.0 will eventually be uploaded once released.
> 
> Still, Jelmer Vernooij, who mostly maintains samba packages alone,
> recently called for help in maintaining the packages. Samba package
> maintenance is a big work to do (I've done that for years and, at that
> time I wasn't alone to do so) so I suggest not pressuring up the samba
> package maintainers too much. TIA.
 

Links:
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[1] https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.3
[2] https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.4
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