Starting on a Samba 4.0 'complete' debian package

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 23:03 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> 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?
> > 
> > (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)
> That's in git @ git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-samba/samba4.git
> 
> > - your work ( in git)
> That's basically the merge of my work, a verbatim copy of the samba3
> packages and the delta in those since 4.0
> 
> > - the current samba3 packaging and its giant history (in
> > SVN...including branches for various backports)
> I started working on converting this to Git but it's not quite done yet
> - the main thing missing is importing all the pristine tar files into
> the git repository.
> 
> The current work in progress can be found at 
... http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-samba/samba.git;a=summary

Cheers,

Jelmer