[PATCH PROPOSAL] - remove vfs_scannedonly from samba 4.x source tree

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 03:00:31PM +0200, David Disseldorp wrote:
> Hi Robin,
> 
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:46:32 +0200, Robin Hack wrote:
> 
> > Hello samba!
> > 
> > I played with vfs_scannedonly and I found that project looks almost dead
> > from my point of view.
> > 
> > Scannedonly is divided to two parts:
> >  * vfs_scannedonly - lives in samba source tree
> >  * scannedonly daemon - lives at http://olivier.sessink.nl/scannedonly/
> > 
> > I tried to compile last version, scannedonly-0.21.tar, on fresh Debian 8
> > without luck (I just blindly follow instruction on web pages). Scannedonly
> > package are not present in fedora and debian distributions also...
> > 
> > I propose removal of this module from samba source tree.
> > 
> > My question is: I would like to know... Does anybody even use
> > vfs_scannedonly/scannedonly daemon in samba 4.x?
> 
> vfs_scannedonly has largely been superseded in recent releases by
> samba-virusfilter[1]. The developer, SATOH Fumiyasu (cc'ed), has
> expressed an intention of getting samba-virusfilter into upstream Samba.
> 
> I'm in favour of removing scannedonly from the master branch, unless
> someone steps up to maintain it.

OK by me. What timeframe do we set for getting a response
from the maintainer ?