Bug#629100: Status update

[Thomas Hood <jdthood@gmail.com>]

I have submitted the revised source code (i.e., winexe ported to
current samba git "master" branch) to winexe's author but it is not
yet clear to me what he plans to do with it.

The winexe build needs access to the samba source tree.  This has not
changed in my port.  I have looked into the possibility of building
winexe against Samba 4 *-dev packages.  Unfortunately, the latter do
not include all the needed header files.  One possible course of
action would be to work with the Samba 4 maintainers to get the
missing header files included in the -dev files.  But there are quite
a few header files missing, so I wouldn't expect this request to be
met with much enthusiasm.

Given that winexe has to be built against the samba source tree, I
think it's best if we try to get winexe included in Samba 4.

If this attempt fails then winexe will have to be maintained
separately from Samba.  Winexe upstream will have to be maintained as
a Samba 4 fork.  The pain of this can be minimized by syncing
regularly with Samba 4 master.  For Debian we can then revisit the
idea of building against -dev packages by including more headers.
-- 
Thomas