[PATCHES] Generate shorter name for extra python files

[Andreas Schneider]

On Wednesday, 16 August 2017 12:51:59 CEST Lukas Slebodnik via samba-technical 
wrote:
> On (16/08/17 10:02), Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> >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?
> 
> ATM current version of libraries (with architecture in names for python3)
> are not widely used among distributions (only fedora 27 which is in devel
> phase) But official samba 4.7.0 might be adopted quite fast due to
> samba-ad-dc with MIT krb5. This is a reason why I would prefer to solve
> this till official 4.7.0. And I would prefer solution which is acceptable
> for most of distributions. Downstream only patches are bad.

I agree we NEED to fix this for 4.7. It will be a pain changing it later!


I would argue that this is a blocker for the 4.7 release.


	Andreas

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