ntdb in Samba?

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Mar 13 21:16:44 MDT 2015


On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 08:51:24PM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 06:01:42PM +0100, Michael Adam wrote:
> > Excellent idea.
> > 
> > I also find it regrettable that the proposed git tree has been
> > withdrawn so fast..
> 
> My point is that we need a better communication strategy about which
> pieces of Samba we want to take the liberty to change without notice
> and which pieces we stick to. This is the third time in quick succession
> that my patches break external consumers of our internals. The current
> strategy does not work, people just do not know what they can depend
> upon. Until we get better in that, I don't think there is much we can
> afford to do in terms of refactoring.
> 
> The branch is back, but we need to solve that problem very soon.

Thanks. *What* external consumers are these ? I can't figure
out who is using ntdb. As Rusty already commented we can
just remove it IMHO.


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