[Samba] Improving Samba packaging on Debian (was: Re: Sernet 4.3.X package is no longer free :/)

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 15:17 +0000, Chris Weiss wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 7:47 AM Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net
> >
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Am 21.09.2015 um 14:28 schrieb mathias dufresne:
> > 
> > i don't see a valid reason why samba should be treated different
> > than
> > any other software like postfix, dovecot, mariadb, httpd,
> > trafficserver,
> > named, unbound, ffmpeg where for most software it's absolutely
> > normal to
> > use distribution packages (as well as i do that for samba where the
> > Fedora packages are typically recent)
> > 
> > for all other server software own builds and distribution packages
> > are
> > fine while asking on the upstream user mailing-lists and for samba
> > it's
> > different
> > 
> > explain me why!
> > 
> 
> it's not different.  those packages you mentioned have had someone
> step up
> and volunteer to maintain the software package for that distro. 
>  sometimes
> it's a core member of the distro, sometimes a member of the project
> itself,
> and often neither.  the people that have stepped up for samba are
> doing
> builds based on the feedback they get in the time they have
> available.  if
> your distro's package doesn't have something you need, file a bug
> report or
> feature request to get it added. don't be surprised if the response
> is
> "please submit a patch".

Extra assistance as part of the team packaging (and then backporting)
Samba for debian would be most welcome.  Samba is a big package, and it
needs a lot of help.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/samba

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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