[Samba] 4.16.5 packages for ubuntu 22.04 jammy

Michael Tokarev mjt at tls.msk.ru
Mon Oct 24 12:09:36 UTC 2022


24.10.2022 14:49, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 24.10.2022 14:34, Lorenzo Milesi wrote:
..
>> Do you think it's technically possible to have 4.16 on Ubuntu 20.04? Louis wasn't providing it.
> 
> I looked at Fbuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa.  There's a small difficulty there: they
> don't have debhelper 13, which is used in quite a few places in current packaging
> (for example ${VARIABLE}s in debian/foo.install and the like files).  It is not
> difficult to work around that, but I don't see real reason for that.

Actually this is not true: there's just one such place left (samba/debian/python3-ldb.symbols.in)
and it is only in comment section, the actual expansion is done in d/rules file.

But the whole thing seems to be easy to overcome due to focal-backports.
Lemme give it a try..

/mjt



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