Dropbox in Samba 3.2?

[Sam Liddicott]

Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 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).
>   
But you have to let one such through every now and then just to remind 
everyone why... :-)

Sam