Bug#851678: RM: openchange -- RoQA; incompatible with updated samba
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 10:26 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> I'm not perfectly convinced about this RM request, but something should
> happen with openchange in stable:
At $work we rely on openchange but not openchangeproxy. We know it was
removed from stretch and later but were assuming we could use it on
jessie, once we have migrated from wheezy. The wheezy to jessie
migration is blocked by some regression bugs in jessie Linux CIFS
support that we are in the process of debugging. Once we have fixed
that, we would like to start migrating systems to jessie. Post-jessie
we don't yet have a strategy but are looking into options.
> * openchangeproxy (1:2.2-5) is uninstallable in stable (#838671)
> samba-libs has a Breaks: openchangeproxy (<< 1:2.2-6) that stems from
> the first samba 4.2 upload to jessie-security:
I guess this could be fixed by a new upload that either drops
openchangeproxy or fixes the API/ABI usage.
> * openchange FTBFS in stable (I just mentioned this in #838671)
> (the version in stable was most likely built against samba 2:4.1.13+dfsg-4)
This looks like the API issue in openchangeproxy mentioned in the
samba changelog from the build log messages you posted.
This is the openchange bug and patch for this specific FTBFS:
https://github.com/openchange/openchange/issues/249
https://github.com/openchange/openchange/commit/73a49af50bf0a496cfe62f49e60a662f1d04d685.patch
> * openchange was removed from unstable due to incompatibility with
> newer samba versions
Unfortunately the openchange project is dead upstream so it won't be
coming back.
> * downside: openchange builds a lot more packages than just openchangeproxy
> these are all still installable in stable (according to piuparts)
At $work we rely on openchangeclient and several of the -dev packages.
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