[Samba] cifs-utils 4.1 in Debian lenny backports
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From: Christian PERRIER on 4 May 2010 03:50 (this mail is crossposted to 4 mailing lists, some of which being subscribers-only. Please consider this when answering if you need to) Let's see this as my first achievement of SambaXP (http://www.sambaxp.org). An "official" backport of cifs-utils (http://www.samba.org/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/) is now available for users of Debian lenny. This package can be found on backports.org, which is a service run by Debian developers to provide backported versions of software to the stable release of Debian. These backports often receive the same attention and care than official packages. In the case of samba and samba-related packages (such as cifs-utils), packages are provided by the same packaging team and we are highly committed to provide a good service with these packages (which includes working on security fixes when needed). Packages on backports.org are digitally-signed by the backprots.org FTP master key. Uploads to this archive must be signed by their uploaders which can only be official Debian developers and they're expected to apply the same care to checks and testing that they're doing on packages they upload in the official Debian archive. Backported packages are packages have to be first in Debian "testing" (which is, shortly said, the testbed of the "next Debian release to come", currently Debian squeeze....scheduled for "when it's ready"). This explains why we backported cifs-utils 4.1 and not the current 4.4 release: we haven't built that release yet for Debian unstable. Hopefully, this will happen soon (hint hint to Steve Langasek). Having cifs-utils in backports.org was really important because it now allows us to backport the current version of Samba 3 packages in Debian testing (2nd version fo 3.4.7 packages). This version is the first package version where the old "smbfs" package (that provides, as its name doesn't tell, the CIFS mount utilities and *not* the smbfs mount utilities....) is dropped from binary packages generated by the samba source package. "smbfs" is now provided by cifs-utils, as a transition package, that depends on the cifs-utils binary package, which is the one that really includes (u)mount.cifs and related files. How to use backports.org packages? -------------------------------- General instructions are available at http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions -- |