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Date:      Tue, 5 Jun 2007 14:46:45 +0200
From:      "Timur I. Bakeyev" <timur@gnu.org>
To:        Andrea Venturoli <ml.diespammer@netfence.it>
Cc:        spil.oss@gmail.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [net/samba3] Upgrade to Samba 3.0.25a
Message-ID:  <20070605124644.GD22215@com.bat.ru>
In-Reply-To: <46652DEF.1070709@netfence.it>
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On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:33:35AM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> Timur I. Bakeyev wrote:
> 
> >I would like to stress, that after problems with the last Samba releases
> >I decided to delay new port for at least one week to collect feedback
> >from mailing lists and other sources, as well as from developers to see,
> >if there are no fatal problems with the release. Unfortunately, with
> >security updates we can't wait too long, thus 3.0.25 slipped into the
> >ports collection, although it possibly shouldn't.
> 
> Ok, this is however not a fault in the way FreeBSD handles port.
> This time it's samba itself that should be blamed (although I'm not 
> recriminating here).

Unfortunately, Samba3 became so big and hairy, that fixing one problem
there creates few new. So, for the last ~10 releases this was pretty
common situation when erratra release was following very quickly.

> >I'm planning to ressurect net/samba3-devel port to put latest releases there,
> >leaving net/samba3 for proven to work releases.
> 
> I don't think this issues are related.
> If you feel you should, then obviously go ahead, but, as I see it, both 3.0.25 
> and 3.0.25a would have gone into samba3, not samba3-devel.

I want people to have something stable to work with, when new features
may wait. Possibly, both samba3 and samba3-devel will have same ports
in majority of the time, but not always.

With best regards,
Timur Bakeyev.



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