[Pkg-samba-maint] [Samba] Binary_Packages/Debian

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Christian Perrier wrote:
> All this should make both packaging styles to converge together and,
> ideally, the DEB files published on samba.org could then be simple
> backports of the packages in Debian unstable.
> 
> The major obstacle to this are the patches we use. Just after SambaXP,
> I and Steve Langasek examined all of them and commented them. Several
> are marked "forward upstream" so it's just a matter of time for us to
> recover from the recent security fixes/release hype (and the
> associated bug reports mini-flood) and come back at you discussing
> about these patches.
I've committed most that were marked as "forward upstream" a couple of
weeks ago, except for the famous "fix FHS" one and some smbfs stuff.

Cheers,

Jelmer