Proposal: drop libmsrpc.so in Sa,mba 3.0.26

simo idra at samba.org
Thu May 31 21:36:28 GMT 2007


On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 16:08 -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> * jerry lobs one up for debate
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> The libmsrpc code in incomplete, suffers from bitrot, and has no
> maintainer.  The pain of trying to keep in it the 3.0.26 tree
> while moving to the PIDL generated server and client stubs
> is unnecessary IMO.
> 
> I would like to remove it form SAMBA_3_0_26 and siable it
> in the SAMBA_3_0 tree (but leave it in place in case someone
> wants to revisit it after the migration to PIDL is finished).
> 
> COmments?

I know of no users, and I have to cut it out from Fedora packages anyway
cause there is no way to use it without including almost all samba
source in a devel package.

I say, just get rid of it as it is, unless someone steps up to make it
possible to actually use that code outside of samba.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer
email: idra at samba.org
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