[Samba] samba 4.16 on ubuntu focal

[Michael Tokarev]

22.02.2024 13:38, Arnaud FLORENT via samba wrote:
> Hi
> 
> we are using Michael repo on ubuntu focal 20.04 for 4.16 samba branch
> 
> Thank Michael for sharing theses packages
> 
> it looks that 4.16 branch is missing since 17/2
> 
> will this repository be restored or should we move to samba 4.17?
> 
> http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/packages/samba/focal/

Oh.  I did a cleanup of the files in there, and, among various
duplicates, also removed 4.16.  Maybe it was too soon :)

I'll see if I can get it back, - don't want to rebuild it without
changing anything.

But I really suggest you to move to 4.17 or 4.18.   4.16 is basically
end-of-line already, - only security issues will be fixed.  4.17 is
already in the same mode (not counting some LTS efforts for it here).

See
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.16
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.17

Seeing how samba upgrades goes these days, I'd say it's okay to
stay at current release, at least after .1 is out :)

/mjt