On 2019-03-27 4:25 p.m., Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 12:18 -0700, Matt Turner wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 10:04 AM Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> The samba project will most likely be disbanded shortly. While >>> the current project members may stay as fallback maintainers, >>> the following packages (being part of the Samba stack) would really use >>> new, dedicated maintainers: >> >> I understand disbanding projects when they're really just the old >> "herd" concept, but this actually looks like a coherent set of >> packages that a project should maintain. I don't see a bug about >> disbanding samba. What's the rationale? > > The project's developers are no longer interested in maintaining those > packages, and we're checking if people would be interested in some of > them. It's better to have a few disjoint maintainers than no > maintainers at all. >
Some of those are separate, but most of those packages really need to stay together, they all even come from the same upstream source... I don't know if disbanding the project is a good idea for that one. These packages at minimum all need to be maintained together: net-fs/samba sys-libs/talloc [#] sys-libs/tdb [#] sys-libs/tevent [#] sys-libs/ldb net-misc/smbc
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