[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#736405: python-samba: multiple client-side packages pull in samba since python-samba 2:4.1.4+dfsg-2

Axel Beckert abe at debian.org
Thu Jan 23 11:00:49 UTC 2014


Package: python-samba
Version: 2:4.1.4+dfsg-2
Control: affects -1 fusesmb nautilus-share backuppc smb4k

Hi,

Since 2:4.1.4+dfsg-2 python-samba depends on samba (the daemon/service)
package itself. But python-samba is (via samba-common-bin) a dependency
of several client packages, including:

* fusesmb
* nautilus-share
* backuppc
* smb4k

I suspect this is related to the following changelog entry:

   * Move libpac, db_glue and hdb module from samba-libs to samba
     package to reduce size and dependency set of libs package.

So maybe these parts could be separated into their own package, maybe
samba-libs-extra or such?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (400, 'stable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.12-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash



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