> What exactly do you want to achieve?
Louis used to provide an APT repo for Debian 10 and 11, and for Ubuntu LTS, with
the currently supported Samba versions.
This means he was providing the latest stable versions of Samba for the current
stable versions of Debian and Ubuntu.
My main goal would be to restore something like this, that is a repo for Deb
10+11 and Ubuntu 20+22, with Samba 4.{15,16,17}, and keeping it up to date with
Samba releases.
> For debian itself I do provide backport of current samba for the stable
> distribution,
> for stable systems. It is not the latest - like there's no 4.17 for
bullseye
> currently
> (as in $subject), but it will be available once it feels like 4.17 is
settled
> down a
> bit. I think debian is "covered".
I understand your point, which is correct on the distro side. Unfortunately,
this doesn't always match the vendor side, which requires you to run a
"stable" version of the software to get support.
> There's no issue whatsoever to provide backports for ubuntu, it is
trivial to
> do, I
> can build and upload them to my site if there's a need - together with
debian
> packages.
> Ubuntu tend to perform some modifications (like branding and changes to
default
> smb.conf),
> which definitely aren't mandatory, - just a rebuild of debian package
on ubuntu
> will do
> the trick.
That would be great! If you could also have a repo for it, so that others can
participate, it would be great.
> I don't think there's a real need to provide older samba versions
(eg 4.15
> currently,
> or 4.16 once 4.17 is available). Also I don't think there's a real
need to
> provide current
> samba packages for older distributions (eg debian buster) - maybe, just
maybe
> the ubuntu
> lts, but even that one is questionable, - maybe ubuntu guys can do this
rather
> easy work.
I'll be glad to participate, but as previously said, I lack knowledge. I can
probably even find a server for storing the apt repo, if needed. And for
building as well.
Louis repo was covering several distros and samba version, and was very useful
for that. I'd like to have that opportunity back.
Thank you
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