Starting on a Samba 4.0 'complete' debian package

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 07:59 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Andrew Bartlett (abartlet at samba.org):
> 
> > As far as I'm aware, no other debian package of the complete Samba 4.0.0
> > release exists (if it does, I'll be be glad to know about it!). 
> 
> Well, more or less, my own intent was to start working on this for
> Debian jessie. 
> 
> What actually makes my life difficult for this is.....that I have no
> more idea of the place where jelmer is storing his work. Jelmer, is
> that bzr.samba.org?

I pulled the experimental package from
git://git.debian.org/pkg-samba/samba4 as indicated by
http://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/samba4

> (another thing that seem to make my life difficult is that my
> involvment in Debian seems to be shrinking nowadays, because real life
> and other hobbies are taking precedence)
> 
> I'm afraid that the use of bzr by Jelmer makes a quite big step for me
> to deal with. Despite Steve langasek and Jelmer's numerous attempts to
> convince me that This Is Good For Us....I'm still a moron about all
> this. I can now manage to to my own packaging work in git for some of
> my packages, but I'm still using SVN for samba packaging.
> 
> Still, my own projects for 2013 involve a participation to SambaXP
> (assuming my company is still OK to pay for this....) and have some
> merging work there on the way to a "samba" package for Debian that
> would be of course samba 4.x.y *and* provide a smooth upgrade path
> from samba 3.6 which we have in wheezy.
> 
> That seems to be a distant date in the future, but it's not that far
> away and it would be good to gathe rtogetther all people who
> conttribute to Debian packages of samba, there (/you, Jelmer, Ivo de
> Decker, /me, Steve(?), Luk Claes.....in random order).
> 
> > As I figure others might be interested in a combined package, I'm hoping
> > that someone might like to work with me to get this working, so we can
> > point Samba users at a complete build of the official release. 
> 
> We have 3 things to merge:
> - Jelmer's work (probably in bzr somewhere)
> - your work ( in git)
> - the current samba3 packaging and its giant history (in
> SVN...including branches for various backports)
> 
> Interesting challenge. And the most interesting one is "provide a
> completly smooth and transparent upgrade to users of 3.6
> packages". For file and print server setups, I have no doubts....for
> domain controllers, I'm more skeptical..:-)

I think for domain controllers, we should just provide the same features
they currently have.  The 'samba4' package in experimental has the
ability to call samba-tool domain classicupgrade, and this can certainly
be offered, but it isn't required unless folks actively want to upgrade.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org