Samba DEBUG in OpenChange

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2015-12-08 at 22:22 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 06:43:53AM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 02:13:00AM +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > > Sorry, but the point of this e-mail thread escapes me. You asked
> > > us what we need to fix compatibility with newer versions of
> > > Samba, and
> > > now you don't like the answer you're telling us we should just
> > > fork
> > > and go away?
> > 
> > Initially I thought the issue is mainly about debug. During the
> > thread I
> > realized that the integration goes a lot further, OpenChange has a
> > much
> > deeper dependency on Samba iternals than I had initially realized.
> > Today
> > it's about debug, tomorrow it will be some libndr aspect and next
> > week
> > it will be something else. I am just worried that we will break
> > your
> > builds in the future without knowing again and again. This is what
> > led
> > me to think a fork is your best bet.
> 
> No, a fork is a *terrible* idea :-). Let's find
> out what OpenChange needs and *communicate* about
> how we can make the integration better.

In the meantime, can we just revert that changes that put openchange
out in the cold in the first place (the debug changes), or make the
debug lib and header public, until we have the better solutions?

> OpenChange isn't asking for an ABI freeze, and
> we're not offering one, so I wouldn't worry about
> that :-).

Indeed. 

Andrew Bartlett

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