RFCs, Debian and Samba build dependencies

[simo]

On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 10:41 +0100, Karolin Seeger wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:50:20AM +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > Just to let you know, the create-tarball script in 'master' does no such
> > thing.  It looks like it does, but the rfc files are still in there, and
> > as such, the merged build succeeds. 
> > 
> > I was going to propose a patch that removes source4 from that tarball,
> > but I received objections on IRC this morning, that developers need the
> > exact smbtorture4 source that was used to validate the release included
> > with the release.  
> > 
> > As such, if you were to remove the rfc files, it would break this
> > functionality.  If you were to choose to do so regardless, I would ask
> > that the entire source4 directory be removed, as it will no longer
> > build.  (or an alternate solution found, but too much time has already
> > been wasted on this). 
> 
> I wasn't aware that the merged-build does not work without the RFC files.
> I think we should re-add the RFCs to the Samba3 tarballs to fix the merged
> build. Debian could remove the RFCs for their Samba3 packages.
> Are there any objections?

+1

Simo.


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Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo at samba.org>
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. <simo at redhat.com>