Re: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#759008: libtdb1: FTBFS on hurd-i386

[Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 2014-08-23 at 22:56 +0200, Manuel Menal wrote:
> On 23/08/2014 22:27, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > block 759008 by 748943
> > tags 759008 -patch

> > Please fix byte range locking in the Hurd (see the blocking bug I've
> > added), or propose a patch that uses an alternative *and* passes the
> > test suite.
> I do hope too that partial file locking gets implemented on GNU/Hurd 
> ASAP. But in the meantime, it would be a shame not to have a working 
> samba, when it *does* work fine with this patch.

Jelmer,

Partial file locking is soon to happen for GNU/Hurd, but don't hold your
breath yet. Meanwhile it is not OK to block a lot of packages (not only
tdb, ldb,samba etc) due to this issue, please be a little more
permissive :)

Thanks!