LDB releases

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Hi Simo, Tridge,

For two reasons, I think it would be nice to have releases of LDB
(standalone) with version numbers out of sync with Samba 4.

1) At the moment, LDB has been packaged in Debian as part of Samba 4.
This has a few consequences:

 * Follows Samba 4 versioning (4.0.0~tp3), so no API guarantees per
   version
 * Tied to the samba source package in other ways (can't enter 
   the same distribution as samba)
 * Lots of dependencies on other Samba packages because of the modules
   provided.

I think the ldb Debian package should be based on the standalone ldb (i.e. with
dependencies on just tdb and talloc) and not be packaged as part of Samba 4. 
That would significantly reduce the number of dependencies and would make
it possible for ldb to enter Debian Sid and eventually testing and not just 
experimental.

2) Ideally, I also think it would be nice if ldb ended up in the same
situation as popt is at the moment, where we can use 
library provided by the system (if the version is recent enough), or, if not 
available, the one provided with Samba.



However, both of these situations require there to be ldb releases
with version numbers of some sort. Would it be possible to have a version 
number somewhere (I guess configure.ac would do), that is updated when 
API-incompatible changes are introduced, new features are introduced, etc?

Eventually, it would also be nice to have tarballs of these 
releases on the site so they can be used by other developers that are 
interested in using ldb in their software.

Thoughts?

Cheers,

Jelmer
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Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> - http://samba.org/~jelmer/