[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#1064337: Bug#1064337: samba: NMU diff for 64-bit time_t transition

[Michael Tokarev]

20.02.2024 10:30, Andrew Bartlett :
> Kia Ora Steve,
> 
> So long since we had a chance to work together, and I thank you for your work on Debian.
> 
> Can we have a chat about this?
> 
> sssd does not, as I read it, use any time_t relevant parts of ldb, and is the only external user of LDB in Debian that we know of.

It is not only about Debian.  The transition is here not just for
packages in Debian, but also for any external 3rd-paty packages
which might be installed on user systems from any external sources
or built locally.

Still, libldb and samba-libs are private-to-samba things (or at least
semi-private), libldb isn't something which is consumed externally
(even sssd *extends* libldb, not "uses" it).  There should be no
external consumers of it.  And for sssd, we had enough changes in
libldb already which breaks sssd in one way or another and needs
sssd rebuild or refinement.

FWIW.
Do we really need libldb package?  Maybe it can be a part of
samba-libs?  There's a thread about that on samba-technical@,
but it occured to me only now, - do we *really* need a separate
libldb?  I'll reply on samba-technical@, this has nothing to do
with this time_t transition.

/mjt