[Samba] samba 4.16 on ubuntu focal

[Arnaud FLORENT]

Hi Michael


Le 22/02/2024 à 12:37, Michael Tokarev via samba a écrit :
> 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).

thank you for this fast answer.

i will work on upgrading to 4.17

if you could get  4.16 back meanwhile it would be great...

  thanks again for your work



>
> 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
>
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Arnaud FLORENT
IRIS Technologies