[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#633841: proposal of package name change to python-samba4

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On 07/14/2011 11:10 AM, Arvid Requate wrote:
> A package named "python-samba" used to be build from the source package "samba"
> (3.0.24-6+lenny3) in lenny. This binary package was removed from debian/control
> later on (2:3.2.5-4lenny14 see http://packages.debian.org/source/lenny/samba),
> but some derived distributions have reenabled the build of python-samba in the
> source package. Since this version has an epoch of 2, the normal upgrade of the
> python-samba package to the current one build from the source package "samba4"
> fails.  This can be avoided by simply renaming the package.
>
> Also, to match the naming scheme of samba4/samba4-clients/winbind4 it would be
> good to rename the binary package to "python-samba4".
>
This would be inconvenient since the python package is actually called 
"samba".

The python bindings in Samba 3 were disabled for a good reason. Debian 
didn't ship a python-samba in squeeze, and python-samba in lenny didn't 
have an epoch yet so it should be fine for us to use that name now.

Cheers,

Jelmer