Hello,
the Samba Team has announced [1] that it will remove SWAT from the Samba Suite. SWAT is unmaintained and has the most security bugs.
I plan to remove the samba-swat subpackage in Fedora 18, 19 and rawhide as soon as it gets removed from the current Samba development tree.
Cheers,
-- andreas
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Andreas Schneider asn@redhat.com wrote:
Hello,
the Samba Team has announced [1] that it will remove SWAT from the Samba Suite. SWAT is unmaintained and has the most security bugs.
Andrew, I'm in that thread on the Samba mailing list at http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2013-February/171643.html. I don't see an actual decision there, just a call for discussion. Also, if you decide to remove the samba-swat package from the samba suite, should it be obsoleted or merely reported as conflicting with new samba-common releases, to make sure people delete it before doing upgrades and getting in dependency trouble? It might even be better pulled as part of the next Samba 4.0.4 package.
And while you're in that package: I've got rewrite of the .spec file and the other dependencies for RHEL compatibility of 4.0.3. It's up at https://github.com/nkadel/samba-4.0.3-srpm/, along with RPM building tools for all the other dependencies below:
iniparser # not in RHEL krb5 # Version 1.10 in RHEL 6.4 is good enough
libtalloc libtdb libldb libtevent
I plan to remove the samba-swat subpackage in Fedora 18, 19 and rawhide as soon as it gets removed from the current Samba development tree.
Cheers,
-- andreas-- Andreas Schneider GPG-ID: 8B7EB4B8 Red Hat asn@redhat.com Samba Team asn@samba.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
On Monday 25 February 2013 10:09:50 Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Andreas Schneider asn@redhat.com wrote:
Hello,
the Samba Team has announced [1] that it will remove SWAT from the Samba Suite. SWAT is unmaintained and has the most security bugs.
Andrew, I'm in that thread on the Samba mailing list at http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2013-February/171643.html. I don't see an actual decision there, just a call for discussion. Also, if you decide to remove the samba-swat package from the samba suite, should it be obsoleted or merely reported as conflicting with new samba-common releases, to make sure people delete it before doing upgrades and getting in dependency trouble? It might even be better pulled as part of the next Samba 4.0.4 package.
That's why I stated below that I will remove it when it gets removed in the Samba development tree upstream.
I will handle the correct deinstallation of samba-swat when it gets removed but thanks for the idea with handling it in samba-common.
I'm sure it will take some time till it gets removed.
And while you're in that package: I've got rewrite of the .spec file and the other dependencies for RHEL compatibility of 4.0.3. It's up at https://github.com/nkadel/samba-4.0.3-srpm/, along with RPM building tools for all the other dependencies below:
iniparser # not in RHEL krb5 # Version 1.10 in RHEL 6.4 is good enough libtalloc libtdb libldb libtevent
I've removed everything for older version on purpose to have a clean spec file. We decided not to support RHEL6 with this.
On Monday 25 February 2013 17:33:09 Andreas Schneider wrote:
On Monday 25 February 2013 10:09:50 Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Andreas Schneider asn@redhat.com wrote:
Hello,
the Samba Team has announced [1] that it will remove SWAT from the Samba Suite. SWAT is unmaintained and has the most security bugs.
Andrew, I'm in that thread on the Samba mailing list at http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2013-February/171643.html. I don't see an actual decision there, just a call for discussion. Also, if you decide to remove the samba-swat package from the samba suite, should it be obsoleted or merely reported as conflicting with new samba-common releases, to make sure people delete it before doing upgrades and getting in dependency trouble? It might even be better pulled as part of the next Samba 4.0.4 package.
That's why I stated below that I will remove it when it gets removed in the Samba development tree upstream.
I will handle the correct deinstallation of samba-swat when it gets removed but thanks for the idea with handling it in samba-common.
I'm sure it will take some time till it gets removed.
The time has come. SWAT has been removed from Samba and I will remove it in F19 and newer now.
-- andreas
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