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I recently upgraded a critical file server at work, from etch to lenny. With that upgrade, samba version was bumped from 3.0.24 to 3.2.5.

We were then hit by a quite severe bug where files ACLs are messed up on Excel files after saving the files (upstream #4308, fixed upstream in 3.2.8).

I will probably consider fixing the official Lenny packages (there is no bug reported about this in Debian, though) along with a few other quite severe ACL-related bugs (Mathieu Parent, who maintains ctdb, pointed me to a few such bugs).

However, I couldn't wait for such a long time and backporting the fix for #4308 isn't completely straightforward. So, I decided to upgrade our server to the latest Samba 3.2 version, namely 3.2.15 (upgrading to 3.4 series could bring other kind of regressions and we have no time to properly test everything...users already have their guns handy).

This is where the Debian Samba packaging team unofficial repository becomes handy. It is meant as as service to users who want to run the very latest samba code and have the same packaging choices we have in supported Debian releases. We already had 3.2.14 there but I never took time to update to 3.2.15. This is done now.

Moreover, as our production server uses the amd64 architecture, these unofficial backports are now available for both i386 (my usual build machine) and amd64.

Using this repository is as easy as:

deb http://pkg-samba.alioth.debian.org/packages lenny-backports/
deb-src http://pkg-samba.alioth.debian.org/packages lenny-backports/

Please note that this APT source does not use GPG signing of Packages files. When I am less lazy, I'll try to at least sign it with my GPG key.