[Samba] Q: Samba 4.10 to 4.11

[Marco Shmerykowsky]

On 2020-11-04 4:27 pm, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
> On 04/11/2020 21:05, Reindl Harald via samba wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Am 04.11.20 um 21:59 schrieb Marco Shmerykowsky via samba:
>>> I was just looking at https://apt.van-belle.nl/ and
>>> see that the packages for samba 4.11 and up only
>>> appear to be available for Debian 10.
>>> 
>>> Does that imply/state that Debian 10 is required for the
>>> newer samba releases starting with 4.11?
>> 
>> if you didnt't care for a year about the newest release of your 
>> distribution why do you care about a specific package?
>> 
>> either you want LTS or you don't
>> 
> That isn't what the OP asked, he asked if 4.11.x needs Debian 10 to
> run, to which the answer is no and yes 😁
> 
> No: I have no doubt that you could probably build Samba on Debian 9,
> but you would also need to install python >= 3.4
> 
> Yes: If he wants to use Louis's repo, he only builds Samba 4.11.x for 
> Debian 10
> 
> If he really wants a Samba supported version, I suggest he upgrades to 
> Debian 10
> 
> Rowland

Thanks for the response Rowland