On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 09:57:45PM -0000, rvjcallanan wrote: > > What you are asking isn't security problem, but a wish for latest and > > greatest. This will not happen in stable release. You could > > come up with same question for every single package. > Actually no, I'm *not* looking for the latest and greatest, just > something that works.
I'd like to direct your attention at the title and description of this bug report: "Samba Backport Urgently Needed". It specifically does not point out specific issues and provide suggestions about how to fix them. In fact, it specfically asks to backport Samba 3.0.25c to Dapper. That is, in fact, the latest and greatest. > No GNU/Linux/Samba stable distro is a reliable replacement for a bog > standard Windows Server. Pointless generalisation will - much like shouting - bring you nothing more than *very* annoyed developers. > The strange thing is that the Samba team has done a wonderful job in > reverse engineering the low level SMB/CIFS operation i.e. fundamental > file access/manipulation is reliable and performance seems to be > excellent. But the higher level permissions mappings etc seem to be > all over the place. Yet I feel Samba is just a hair's breath away from > getting things right...if they would just do a feature freeze on > 3.0.X. Halleluja. :) > I would also worry that some 3.0.25c security patches backported to > 3.0.22 might have unintended side effects given the enormous amount of > code changes and bug fixes between the two versions. I sleep pretty well at night knowing that our security team takes great care to make sure our security fixes do not have unintended side effects. > Jim Shanks's very "diplomatic" contribution gives me some cause for > holding my head high amidst all the venom. Thanks Jim, I needed that! To what venom do you refer? > I am no Samba insider but I think Jeremy and the Samba team need to > stop basking in past glories and start getting their act together. > They need to stop tinkering around at the bleeding edge and look at > what people are experiencing on the ground with stable distros. This is hardly the correct forum to make such suggestions. We've already established that the Samba team do not handle our Samba bugs. Note: I'm perfectly fine with that. A few upstreams do it, and it's highly appreciated, but by no means a requirement. Neither de jure nor de facto. > Can Ubuntu do to Samba what it did to Debian??? What would that be? -- Soren Hansen Ubuntu Server Team http://www.ubuntu.com/ -- Samba Backport Urgently Needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137656 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
