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June 20th, 2012 - 02:10 am ET by Christian PERRIER | Report spam
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Hello dear release team,

The Samba Team was planning to ship Samba 3.6.6 (their "stable"
release with many bugfixesbut *only* bugfixes) as of May 25th.

However, a late notice of a possible security issue was discovered
during that week and the Samba release manager delayed the release
until this is sorted out.

This security issue finally turned out to not be one (we, maintainers,
were in the loop since its discovery and so was the Debian security
team)and now the Samba Team is cooking up their 3.6.6
release. And, as they are as careful as the Debian release team, it
takes time..:-)

Still, Karolin Seeger, the Samba release manager, announce recently in
the samba-technical mailign list tjhat the 3.6.6 release is due out
for July 2nd.

I really would like to have this in Debian wheezy, particularly
because the Samba Team listened a *lot* to our needs and was
originally planning to do their release in May *because* of the
planned Debian freeze..:-)

So, I would like to pre-ask for a freeze exception for samba in case
wheezy is frozen before July 2nd. Of course, it would be better to do
that with a diff, but:
- I don't have it
- it will be quite big (as I said, many bugfixes).

Given the very low history of regression in Samba 3.6.* release cycle,
I think it's a low-risk exception.

Many thanks in advance it that's possible.









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#1 Neil McGovern
June 20th, 2012 - 04:50 am ET | Report spam

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 08:00:50AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Still, Karolin Seeger, the Samba release manager, announce recently in
the samba-technical mailign list tjhat the 3.6.6 release is due out
for July 2nd.




Hi,

This would be too late for the freeze, which will be happening in June.

So, I would like to pre-ask for a freeze exception for samba in case
wheezy is frozen before July 2nd. Of course, it would be better to do
that with a diff, but:
- I don't have it
- it will be quite big (as I said, many bugfixes).




Is there a pre-release or rc candidate that you could upload before the
freeze?

Given the very low history of regression in Samba 3.6.* release cycle,
I think it's a low-risk exception.




One of the main issues would be the size of the diff we need to review,
hence the suggestion above!

Neil





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#2 Christian PERRIER
June 20th, 2012 - 03:40 pm ET | Report spam

Quoting Neil McGovern ():

This would be too late for the freeze, which will be happening in June.



*that*, I know..:-)

> So, I would like to pre-ask for a freeze exception for samba in case
> wheezy is frozen before July 2nd. Of course, it would be better to do
> that with a diff, but:
> - I don't have it
> - it will be quite big (as I said, many bugfixes).
>

Is there a pre-release or rc candidate that you could upload before the
freeze?



If only. But, no. This is not Samba Team policy to do beta and RC
releases before they ship a stable update. Indeed, their one and only
release manager just cannot afford that.

> Given the very low history of regression in Samba 3.6.* release cycle,
> I think it's a low-risk exception.
>

One of the main issues would be the size of the diff we need to review,
hence the suggestion above!



The size of the diff would be the same. The only difference being that
what I would upload right now (if an RC release existed) would *not*
be reviewed.

Frankly speakingI would call that just "cheating"..:-). I just
prefer being honest and ask honestly for a freeze exception, in
advance, for what I think will be very low risk.







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#3 Julien Cristau
June 20th, 2012 - 04:00 pm ET | Report spam

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 21:31:04 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:

Quoting Neil McGovern ():

> This would be too late for the freeze, which will be happening in June.

*that*, I know..:-)

> > So, I would like to pre-ask for a freeze exception for samba in case
> > wheezy is frozen before July 2nd. Of course, it would be better to do
> > that with a diff, but:
> > - I don't have it
> > - it will be quite big (as I said, many bugfixes).
> >
>
> Is there a pre-release or rc candidate that you could upload before the
> freeze?

If only. But, no. This is not Samba Team policy to do beta and RC
releases before they ship a stable update. Indeed, their one and only
release manager just cannot afford that.



Well they'd presumably get more testing that way, meaning better
releases. The release process doesn't need to be extremely heavy, it's
"build a tarball and put it out somewhere for people to play with". Or
you could upload a snapshot of the stable branch to sid.

> > Given the very low history of regression in Samba 3.6.* release cycle,
> > I think it's a low-risk exception.
> >
>
> One of the main issues would be the size of the diff we need to review,
> hence the suggestion above!

The size of the diff would be the same. The only difference being that
what I would upload right now (if an RC release existed) would *not*
be reviewed.



But it would get two weeks testing in sid that it's not getting right
now. Which means if nothing else it would make us more confident in a
decision either way.

Frankly speakingI would call that just "cheating"..:-). I just
prefer being honest and ask honestly for a freeze exception, in
advance, for what I think will be very low risk.



In which case you're way more likely to get a 'no'.

Cheers,
Julien





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