Mini-thread hijack...
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I haven't been paying a lot of attention to the list, but this caught my
attention.
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I'm using 4.15.x from Louis' packages on Ubuntu.
And I didn't realize that he was mostly stopping updates. (I need to pay
more attention, eh!?)
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So, I'm probably going to need to make alternate arrangements...
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So suggestions for staying on Ubuntu, and migrating from Louis' 4.15.x to
something that will likely be maintained longer term?
If I can't stay on Ubuntu, I assume Debian might work, given the discussion
- can someone flesh that out more for me?
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-Greg ?
> On 21/10/2022 19:35, Michael Tokarev via samba wrote:
>> 21.10.2022 16:49, Lorenzo Milesi via samba wrote:
>>>> I would not expect to see any package updates from Louis for
sometime.
>>> I'd like to try building packages, at least for the Debian
family >> distributions. I'm not great at packaging, but I did build
some .debs >> in the past, so I'd like to give it a try. And now that
I know Michael >> is on the channel, I might ping him for issues :D
>>> What exactly do you want to achieve?
>>> 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".
>>> 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.
>>> 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.
>>> Is there anything else I'm missing?
>>> Thanks,
>>> /mjt
> Hi Michael, I think the problem is that to users, Debian 10 seemed to get
stuck on samba 4.9.5, which is where Louis came in. He needed later versions of
Samba for his work and he made them available to anyone else that required them.
> Now that you have stated that Debian will provide later versions of Samba
via backports (something that is much appreciated), I see no reason for external
Samba repos, which, because of reasons I will not go into, is a good thing, I
doubt that Louis will be updating his repo in the near future.
> Rowland