Samba upstream is giving us, Debian maintainers, hard times...
Last week, they released three different versions: 3.2.12 for the 3.2 branch, 3.3.5 for the 3.3 branch and 3.4.0rc1 as preparation for the upcoming 3.4.0.
Actually, I should say "Magic Karolin released" as Karolin Seeger is doing such a tremendous work managing Samba releases. In nearly 18 months of such work, she won the deep respect of the whole Samba community for this work.
So, last days, I worked to package all this stuff and now you can pick up whatever Samba you want:
- If you like being on the bleeding edge and help debugging upstream work, you can
use the 3.4.0~rc1 packages from experimental.
- If you are using unstable, you'll get the last 3.3 version we will probably distribute: 3.3.5. Next package in unstable is very likely to be 3.4.0 when it's released
- If you're using testing, you'll get 3.3.4. No change, yet, here.
- If you're using lenny, you have four options (three only if not using i386):
- Stay with the standard sources.list entries and you'll have 2:3.2.5-4lenny2
- Use "stable-proposed-updates" and have 2:3.2.5-4lenny4 a little bit before it enters the next point release (due out soon). That version fixes 3 important bugs, particularly a memory leak and winbind crashes as well as allowing Windows 2000 SP4 workstations to join Samba domains
- Use "official" backports from backports.org. You'll then get 3.3.4 packages (and 3.3.5 as soon as that one enters testing)
- On i386 only, use our unofficial backports that provide the latest upstream release for the same branches, namely 3.2.12. For this, you need to add "deb http://pkg-samba.alioth.debian.org/packages lenny-backports/" to your sources.list
- And, finally, even if you are still using etch (also on i386 only), you can use a more recent version of samba than the good old 3.0.24 that's in etch. I just packaged 3.2.12 which is distributed in our "unofficial" backports repository: "deb http://pkg-samba.alioth.debian.org/packages etch-backports/"
That makes a lot of samba, isn't it? And it's not even finished... :-)
