On Fri, Nov 27 2020, Ian McWilliam <i.mcwill...@westernsydney.edu.au> wrote: > Our samba in tree is out of date and discontinued in 2020-03-03. It contains > CVEs. > > Moving to a stable samba 4.13.x that supports python 3 would be the thing to > do. If I remember > last time Jeremie jca@ attempted this, there were sparc64 issues with the > linker.
Regarding samba updates I dropped the ball. ld.bfd isn't happy with newer samba releases, it generates corrupted samba shared libs. Maybe I should just admit that I'm not smart enough to grok that quirky BFD code. :) Even though I'd like to get rid of this thorn, my opinion is that python ports that should move to py3-only versions shouldn't be blocked by software in the tree that requires py2 support. So adding a py2-only port makes sense. My two cents, -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
