[PATCHES] Generate shorter name for extra python files

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Aug 17 19:33:07 UTC 2017


On Wed, 2017-08-16 at 13:54 +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> 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.

Can you help out on this?  The work has been stalled waiting for:
 - A comment from Petr on the original design intent
 - confirmation of which symbols are generated after another new
version beyond the introduction of this patch.  (Because that is what
broke, and made me revert, a similar change in Debian). 

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett
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