Requesting testers for libtalloc 2.0.1-7.el5

[Stephen Gallagher]

As you may have read on this list, there has been a lot of discussion on 
how to address libtalloc in EPEL5, since RHEL 5.5 was released with an 
earlier version.

To summarize the problem briefly, libtalloc 2.0.1 (providing 
libtalloc.so.2) was released in EPEL5 during the lifetime of RHEL 5.4. 
At this time, no libtalloc existed in RHEL. However, when RHEL 5.5 was 
released, it included a subpackage of the samba3x SRPM that provided an 
earlier version of libtalloc (providing libtalloc.so.1).

The problem is that since the two packages are named the same, and EPEL5 
was carrying a newer version, RHEL users would be upgraded to the EPEL 
version. This would cause compatibility issues with RHEL5, as the 
samba3x package relied on libtalloc.so.1, while EPEL5 features such as 
SSSD relied on libtalloc.so.1. This was also in violation of the 
standard policy of EPEL not to upgrade standard RHEL packages.

In the EPEL meeting today, it was decided that in order to resolve this 
issue for now, the following steps will be taken (as an exception to the 
currently-defined EPEL policy)*

1) libtalloc in EPEL will be updated to carry both libtalloc.so.2 and a 
compatible version of libtalloc.so.1 (built from the samba3x sources).
2) The libtalloc maintainer in EPEL (me) will work with the samba3x 
maintainer in RHEL5 to move libtalloc 2.x into RHEL proper for RHEL 5.6 
(so this violation in policy will exist only during a single RHEL minor 
release)

I would like this package to see extensive testing before it goes to 
stable, so I would request anyone who is (or might wish to be) running 
samba3x to please test this package for incompatibilities with samba3x:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libtalloc-2.0.1-7.el5


* Policy is being re-examined to handle similar issues in the future.
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Stephen Gallagher
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