[Samba] samba 4.16 on ubuntu focal

[Rowland Penny]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 20:28:18 +0300
Michael Tokarev via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> 22.02.2024 16:39, Arnaud FLORENT via samba:
> >>> 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.
> 
> > if you could get  4.16 back meanwhile it would be great...
> 
> I did restore the 4.16 files from a backup.  But please note the files
> are only needed for new install, -- 4.16 hasn't been updated for quite
> some time.  Sure thing I'll build a new 4.16.x version if it will ever
> be released by samba.org, -- ditto for 4.17.x.  These files aren't
> needed anymore if you're already running 4.16.
> 
> /mjt
> 

I doubt that Samba will release another 4.16.x tarball, it is EOL from
Samba's point of view, as will 4.17.x very shortly when 4.20.0 is
released.

Rowland