Samba4 TP
tridge at samba.org
tridge at samba.org
Sun Jan 22 22:15:18 GMT 2006
Derrell,
> It may be worth reconsidering the package name. Debian has a method of
> aliasing one package name to another. If the Samba4 package is called
> "samba4", then at some future time, when everyone should actually be using
> Samba4, Debian can remove the Samba3 package (currently called "samba") and
> make requests for the "samba" package actually retrieve "samba4". This also
> allows Debian to provide both Samba3 and Samba4 for as long as they like, and
> for each to have its own version number.
That's up to the debian packager. I don't want us (the Samba Team) to
make these sorts of choices on behalf of the distros.
So I think we'll do our release as samba-4.0-tp1, and let the distros
cope in whatever way they think is best.
Cheers, Tridge
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