On Monday 25 February 2013 10:09:50 Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Andreas Schneider <asn(a)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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