On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 09:56 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Andrew Bartlett, le Tue 03 Mar 2015 21:46:32 +1300, a écrit : > > This is also the wrong place to propose such patches. Please get them > > accepted (or more likely, clearly rejected) upstream on > > [email protected] as this is clearly not a simple > > packaging matter. > > Well, it isn't a packaging matter, indeed, but it is about helping with > porting packages.
Sure, but the expertise you need to sign off on these changes isn't hear. We are however expert enough to say: - Here be dragons! - The experts you need to sign off on this are on [email protected] - Patches not already approved by upstream should never by in debian Samba or samba library packages. > Not being able to work on KDE packages at all (yes, > kde-runtime depends on samba, thus tdb, and thus basically the whole KDE > desktop depends on it) really doesn't help with making progress in that > regard. If we had to wait for all ground bits to be 100.000% ready, we > would just never manage to go anywhere. That still doesn't justify changing the interface contract as a 'porting' measure in the main debian archive. I realise it's a chicken and egg situation, but this, here, isn't the way to resolve it. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Catalyst IT http://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
