Christian Perrier
2009-Feb-17 08:14 UTC
[Samba] Bits from the Samba packaging team in Debian
Hello dear Samba (and hopefully Debian/Ubuntu) users, Please find here some news from the team that packages Samba for Debian (and threfore indirectly for Ubuntu). As some of you might know, Debian 5.0 "lenny" was released on February 14th. Samba provided in lenny in the 3.2.5 version plus two fixes from 3.2.6: * Fix segfault whan accessign some NAS devices running old versions of Samba Closes: #500129 * Fix process crush when using gethostbyname_r in several threads Closes: #509101, #510450 As usual with the policy in Debian wrt stable releases, we will stick to that version and only security fixes should go in Lenny. However, we are considering to fix a few issues that could be considered close to "release critical", some of them being fixed in 3.2.6. Of course, as soon as Debian stable is released, the development of the next Debian version begins. That version, codename "squeeze", is of course not planned yet. You can bet on something like 18-24 months release cycle, as usual. Samba 3.3.0, which we were parking in Debian experimental, thus appeared on Sunday Feb. 15th in Debian unstable (and soon Debian testing, hopefully. That version has no important packaging change wrt 3.2.5 and should therefore be as stable as the Samba Team made it..:-) One important change we plan to do is now compiling Samba with CTDB, thanks to the great work of Mathieu Parent, who maintains the ctdb package. While I'm personnally ignorant about CTDB, I think we can see this as a very promising evolution. Another important evolution is the preparation of parallel installations of Samba 3 and Samba 4 on the same server. This will probably happen for Squeeze, with the great help of Jelmer Vernooij, who maintains samba4 packages. We will also continue to maintain packages for Etch, the former Debian release (these are 3.0.24-based) as long as that release is officially supported in Debian and, hopefully, we will maintain backported packages of 3.3.* for Lenny, on http://www.backports.org