[Samba] Announce: mjt samba debian/ubuntu repository changes
Michael Tokarev
mjt at tls.msk.ru
Fri Jan 10 12:01:33 UTC 2025
Hi!
The repository I'm maintaining at http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/packages/samba/ ,
will have several changes in the near future.
1. Old distributions - notable debian bookworm and ubuntu focal -
will be removed. There's no support on the recent samba for these anyway,
due to too old gnutls or other packages in there.
2. Old samba versions - at least 4.16 and 4.17 - will be removed too.
These hasn't seen updates and are discontinued upstream too, so no
further updates are expected.
3. When I started, for about a month, the directory layout was different.
It was my first try, and the initial decision wasn't the best.
Yet, up to this date, numerous hosts continue asking for updates for
samba-4.16 for ubuntu-22.04-focal, from numerous IP addresses. I don't
understand such an ignorance, - throw some repository into sources.list
and forget about it for years. The URL has been 404-compliant for over 2
years already.
I plan to create and upload dummy/empty samba packages to those locations,
so the users are made aware they've old throw-n-forget stuff, by basically
*removing* their samba.
If you have better option of this last one, I'm all ears.
Thanks,
/mjt
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