On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Christian Perrier <bubu...@debian.org>wrote:
> Quoting Karolin: > > > Release Announcements > > ===================== > > > > > > This is the first stable release of Samba 3.4. > > > As of yesterday, Samba 3.4.0 is now available in Debian unstable. It > means that the next release of Debian (codename "squeeze", due > out...when it's ready, probably around the end of 2010) will have at > least this version. > > Besides everything that's new in Samba 3.4 and which Samba Team > members are more qualified than me to talk about, I'd like to point > out that, again, the gap between Samba packages in Debian/Ubuntu and > upstream code has shrinked again. There is nearly no more code patch > in our package that hasn't been integrated upstream. > > The efforts of the samba package maintainers in Debian are now focused > on getting this package to enter Debian "testing", which is what will > become the final Debian release. That requires other packages samba is > depending upon to enter testing themselves...which might take > time..but will happen within the next weeks, I hope. > > For Ubuntu users, it means that the next Ubuntu release will have > Samba 3.4.something. > > We would like to express public thanks to the Samba Team for > publishing such good quality code and very specific thanks to Karolin > Seeger for managing to assemble the pieces and succeed in publishing > releases on a timely manner, and to Michael Adam for his work work > integrating the Debian patches, particularly in the build system. The > good work we're (hopefully) doing in publishing packages is because > you are doing such good work. > > I would also like to add my appreciation to the Debian Samba team for providing excellent packages and having it released and patched soon after a release. Thank you, Robert LeBlanc Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support Brigham Young University -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba