[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#1051770: move services and binaries for AD DC setup to package samba-ad-dc

[Lee Garrett]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2023 14:24:09 +0300 Michael Tokarev <mjt at tls.msk.ru> wrote:
> Control: tag -1 + moreinfo
> 
> 12.09.2023 14:14, Lee Garrett wrote:
> > Source: samba
> > Severity: minor
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian at rocketjump.eu
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I believe it would be a good idea to move the binaries and services required for
> > AD DC operation to the package samba-ad-dc. Currently it's possible to run such
> > a setup without installing the package, as it's just a metapackage.
> 
> Sure it is a meta-package, and it is described as such.
> 
> > Moving the binaries/services over would have the benefit of being able to drop
> > the support of this package separately from the samba server, as it currently is
> > for oldstable and older.
> 
> Which binaries/services do you mean, specially?  I for one know just one: it is
> samba.service (and the init script) which starts samba-ad-dc, that's just two files.

I'm thinking

/etc/init.d/samba-ad-dc
/lib/systemd/system/samba-ad-dc.service
/usr/sbin/samba

> 
> /mjt
> 
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