Lenny backports
Hello everybody,
I just joined this mailing list but I somewhat suspect I'll met
several folks I already know ..:-)
I actually joined because, as part of the work on the samba packages,
I intend to try providing backports of samba upstream releases during
the lenny lifecycle.
Indeed, we already need to provide these "backports" as the situation
for samba in official Debian is the following:
- lenny will be released with samba 3.2.5. 3.2.6 (released a few days
ago) introduces too many changes for being suitable for lenny
- experimental has the soon-to-come 3.3.* releases. 3.3.0 is planned
for release by the Samba Team around Jan 5th.
So, our users are actually missing up-to-date releases of samba for
lenny and they will be missing them during lenny's release cycle.
Of course, 3.2.5 is very good quality and very suitable for release,
but some might want to get the very last bugfix releases and we
(packaging team...at least me) want to provide these versions to our
users.
So, I wonder whether lenny backports could be opened now, for things
that are in the same situation.
In our case, having 3.2.6 in lenny-backports would not be exactly a
backport as there is no such version in Debian unstable but I think
you get the point.
Opinions? Comments?
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