On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> wrote: > > forcemerge 685878 690227 710726 737700 > retitle 685878 netatalk: newer upstream versions available > thanks > > Quoting Brian Campbell (2014-02-05 05:41:09) > > I'm interested in an updated version of Netatalk. At the moment, > > Netatalk 2.2.5 fixes several bugs that I've encountered, and is > > relatively easy to update to. There's one fairly significant feature > > missing in Netatalk 3 that's missing and preventing me from using it, > > but I'm working with upstream on that; if they implement that, then > > I'd want to update to 3.1. > > Which feature is that?
The ability to have different users mounting the same share name map to different underlying directories. We have a setup that is designed for video editing, in particular with Avid Media Composer, in which each user has their own directory but can see a view of each other users directories via a number of symlinks. Due to peculiarities of how Avid behaves, each users own directories need to be numbered 1, 2, 3, etc. while other users directories are named username.1, username.2, etc. So to achieve this, when mounting a particular share, each user gets a different actual directory that gets mounted, with appropriate symlinks pointing from username.1 to username's 1 directory, and so on. In Netatalk 2.2, we do this by using variable expansions in paths; the path for a share definition is something like "/path/to/$u_sharename". Netatalk 3 removed the ability to do variable interpolation in pathnames, but I've been in discussion with the upstream maintainers to add that feature back (possibly restricted to just usernames, as that's all we need). > > I've built a Netatalk 2.2.5 package for my own use, and am wondering > > if you're interested in help maintaining Netatalk in Debian. I'm new > > to Debian packaging, however, so you'll have to be patient with me as > > a lot of this is new. > > Yes - help is appreciated. Both one-off help by filing bugreports and > offering patches, and ongoing help maintaining the package. > > I have now dusted off the Alioth team which have existed for quite some > years but haven't been used or promoted much, and added a mailinglist > there. Anyone interested in maintaining Netatalk packaging for Debian > (and its derivatives, e.g. Ubuntu) is encourages to join that team and > subscribe to the corresponding mailinglist. > > To join the team, you need to (create an Alioth account and) request > membership at https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-netatalk/ Thanks, I've subscribed to the list, created an account, and requested membership. > When filing bugreports, please check if same issue has already been > reported, and if so post additional info to that existing bugreport. > Similar bugreports is merged with this email. Apologies. I didn't know if I should file a new bug report or add to an existing. -- Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
