Hi Roberto When you write that the latest patches do not apply cleanly. Do you mean that the code is substantially different so even a manual apply is difficult or do you just mean that the patches do not apply cleanly when running the patch command?
Best regards // Ola On 28 March 2017 at 16:29, Roberto C. Sánchez <robe...@connexer.com> wrote: > LTS folks, > > Based on Mathieu's comment related to the most recent samba patches not > applying cleanly to the version in wheezy, it seems that an update to > the latest upstream 3.6 release might be necessary. That said, I have > looked at the diffstat between the version in wheezy (3.6.6) and 3.6.25, > the latest upstream release in that series. > > The changes are rather substantial. The diffstat finishes with this: > > 258 files changed, 8344 insertions(+), 3246 deletions(-) > > Note that 1460 of the insertions are new lines in WHATSNEW.txt. > > That said, I have some questions: > > - Is this something that is feasible? > - What sort of testing would be required? > - Does it makes sense to go ahead and start updating to 3.6.25? > > If the patch provided by upstream is to apply cleanly, then Mathieu's > comment makes me think that updating to 3.6.25 is a necessary > precondition of utilizing that patch. If that is the path to take, I > think it makes sense to package 3.6.25 and begin testing it, then once > the current regressions (#858564, #858590, and possibly another) are > resolved apply the final patch from upstream. > > Another possibility would be to stick with 3.6.6. and attempt to > backport the patch. I am not a samba developer and while I think I am > sufficiently capable to backport the patch, I am also concerned that I > may miss something. Samba is sufficiently complex to make me prefer the > clean application of a patch from upstream. > > Given that samba is a very widely used and rather important package, I > feel it prudent to solicit comments and suggestions on this. > > Regards, > > -Roberto > > -- > Roberto C. Sánchez > http://people.connexer.com/~roberto > http://www.connexer.com > -- --- Inguza Technology AB --- MSc in Information Technology ---- / o...@inguza.com Folkebogatan 26 \ | o...@debian.org 654 68 KARLSTAD | | http://inguza.com/ Mobile: +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / ---------------------------------------------------------------
