Dropbox in Samba 3.2?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 09:27 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:28:18PM -0400, simo wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 08:20 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:13:22AM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 07:03:11PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > > > Is this really a 'Critical Fix', per the new released branches policy?
> > > > 
> > > > No, certainly not. I'll keep it as a custom fix then.
> > > 
> > > Oi! *I* think it's a critical fix, as per the new
> > > released branches policy. So *now* what are you
> > > going to do :-) :-).
> > 
> > It's a regression,
> > regressions in general are considered critical bugs, and should be
> > addressed for all branches except 3.0.x which is in 'security fixes
> > only' mode.
> 
> Yep. Indeed, we used to be able to do dropboxes, now we can't.
> So we really do need this fix in the released code. It's a
> really nice simple fix too.

My worry is that this argument applies to so often, and easily.  Taken
one at a time, each is so wafer thin, but all good Monty Python addicts
know what happens next :-)

(And yes, this patch is too just wafer-thin, simple and elegant, and I'm
assured perfectly safe).

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
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Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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