actually, I thought that I couldn't do this but on a second thought as I understand I'd simply have to change all my entries in sources.list from buster to bullseye ? I'm using armbian if that's relevant to the story :)
pon., 10 maj 2021 o 10:44 Mathieu Parent <math.par...@gmail.com> napisał(a): > Le ven. 7 mai 2021 à 15:24, Mateusz Mikołajczyk > <mikolajczyk.mate...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > > Package: samba > > Version: 4.9.5+dfsg-5+deb10u1 > > > > I was testing samba with an really old DOS client. it turns out that > ever since samba 3.2.0 there was an upstream change that broke this legacy > printing support. It was already merged upstream but the patch is super > tiny - a one liner: > > > > > https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba/-/commit/47d79d7e7e406f7dd204ded7c72cfed3e0761ad5 > > > > I was wondering, would it be possible to add it as a patch to debian > buster? Currently I figured out a way to apply it - I simply build samba > .deb package from source (i.e. deb-src), manually apply the patch and then > install local version of the package. That's all great until I'm testing > this on x86 architecture (because the compilation is relatively quick), > however I intend to put everything to sbc board as a headless print server. > In order to avoid compilation on the sbc, I could create a virtual machine > and do a cross-compilation but it seems like a massive overkill just to > introduce a one-liner patch, plus it wouldn't survive any of the potential > upgrades > > Hi, > > I'm sorry, but I won't apply this patch to buster. You can use bullseye > instead. > > Regards > -- > Mathieu Parent > -- pozdrawiam serdecznie, Mateusz Mikołajczyk, a.k.a. toudi