[Samba] Re: Issues with cifs mounts following Samba upgrade to 3.0.23a

Andreas Hasenack ahasenack at terra.com.br
Tue Aug 1 23:28:57 GMT 2006


On Tuesday 01 August 2006 17:47, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 08:18:42PM +0000, Damian Sinclair wrote:
> >  I guess there's a bit of concern that this problem will cause a fair
> > number of systems to stop working in a way that isn't entirely easy to
> > diagnose or resolve, so causing a lot of frustration. I have no idea how
> > the community handles issues like these, but have the samba team notified
> > the relevant repository and distro managers about the bug?
>
> I'm sorry about the problem but fixed it as soon as I knew about it,
> and we'll be releasing a 3.0.23b asap to fix this issue. Package
> maintainers for Samba on distros should be on samba-technical, so
> we haven't done any asynchronous notification - we only do that
> for security bugs via vendor-sec.

Why not publish a patch for 3.0.23a? Many people find it easier to apply a 
patch than to browse svn and fetch patches from it (once they know which 
revision as the correct fix).


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