[PATCHES] Generate shorter name for extra python files

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2017-08-15 at 14:22 +0200, Lukas Slebodnik wrote:
> On (22/07/17 13:43), Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-07-21 at 15:46 +0200, Stefan Metzmacher via samba-
> > technical wrote:
> > > Hi Lukas,
> > > 
> > > > > as this will take a bit to discuss, I'll prepare new talloc,
> > > > > tevent
> > > > > and ldb releases without this.
> > > > > 
> > > > > We need an ldb release for 4.7.0rc3 which is planed for next
> > > > > Tuesday.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I thought I answer all questions and Abrew wrote that:
> > > > "(in that respect, I've not done a full review)"
> > > > 
> > > > I am not sure how to move this forward. Or where is a problem.
> > > > But I would really appreciate solution which works for upstream
> > > > and all downstream debian, fedora ...
> > > 
> > > It's just time, some people are/will be on vacation, so it takes
> > > a bit
> > > of time to have a solid solution.
> > > 
> > > We should not rush this into the release on Thursday. There will
> > > be at least 1 or 2 rc's before 4.7.0.
> > > 
> > > But the most important thing is that we should not add a solution
> > > to ldb-1.2.1, which we than have to revert for ldb-1.2.2.
> > 
> > I agree, we need to get this right.  Skipping it for rc3 should be
> > fine.
> > 
> 
> And we skipped rc4 as well. But I hope it is still possible
> to get patches to final 4.7.0 :-)

Perhaps.  Sadly we are all busy, but this is still our aim.  Is there a
particular need for this in 4.7?

> > This area is complex, and I've been (rather unsuccessfully ;-) on
> > leave
> > for the past couple of weeks, and it need some serious thought, and
> > I
> > think the input of the original author to understand the original
> > rationale. 

This part is critical.  

Petr,

Can you comment on what the design intent was here?

> > Then we need to publish the ABI files and binaries, then add a new
> > function, re-publish and check it actually works, the new function
> > is
> > tagged with the new version, the old functions untagged in the ABI,
> > the
> > .so and then the thing debian uses to track those. 
> > 
> > That will give me the confidence we have got it right.
> > 

This is still critical.  We need to ensure this works for a new
incremental release, as that is where the last similar scheme failed.

Andrew Bartlett

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