samba - Jan 2025 - Announce: mjt samba debian/ubuntu repository changes

Hi!

The repository I'm maintaining at http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/packages/samba/ ,
will have several changes in the near future.

1.  Old distributions - notable debian bookworm and ubuntu focal -
  will be removed.  There's no support on the recent samba for these anyway,
  due to too old gnutls or other packages in there.

2. Old samba versions - at least 4.16 and 4.17 - will be removed too.
   These hasn't seen updates and are discontinued upstream too, so no
   further updates are expected.

3. When I started, for about a month, the directory layout was different.
  It was my first try, and the initial decision wasn't the best.
  Yet, up to this date, numerous hosts continue asking for updates for
  samba-4.16 for ubuntu-22.04-focal, from numerous IP addresses.  I don't
  understand such an ignorance, - throw some repository into sources.list
  and forget about it for years.  The URL has been 404-compliant for over 2
  years already.

  I plan to create and upload dummy/empty samba packages to those locations,
  so the users are made aware they've old throw-n-forget stuff, by basically
  *removing* their samba.

  If you have better option of this last one, I'm all ears.

Thanks,

/mjt

10.01.2025 15:01, Michael Tokarev via samba wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> The repository I'm maintaining at
http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/packages/samba/ ,
> will have several changes in the near future.
> 
> 1.? Old distributions - notable debian bookworm and ubuntu focal -
Debian buster I meant, not bookworm.  Which is old-old-stable.

/mjt