[Pkg-samba-maint] samba from experimental uninstallable --> future of Samba 4 packages

[Christian Perrier]

root at mykerinos:~> LC_ALL=C aptitude install samba/experimental
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  ldb-tools samba swat
The following packages have been kept back:
  git-doc gitk libintl-perl libroman-perl manpages manpages-dev p7zip-full tipa
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.8MB of archives. After unpacking 40.4MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  ldb-tools: Depends: libgnutls12 (>= 1.2.5) which is a virtual package.
  swat: Depends: samba (= 3.0.24-6) but 3.9.1+4.0.0tp1-1 is to be installed.
  samba: Depends: libgnutls12 (>= 1.2.5) which is a virtual package.
         Depends: samba-common (= 3.9.1+4.0.0tp1-1) but it is not installable
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Install the following packages:
samba [3.0.24-6 (unstable, stable)]
samba-common [3.0.24-6 (unstable, stable)]

Keep the following packages at their current version:
ldb-tools [Not Installed]

Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
samba recommends smbldap-tools
Score is -10300

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q


I suggest we either remove this old version of samba4 from
experimental...or upload a more version. Jelmer may have something
ready that would better represent the current samba4 developement.

However, we also have to decide on the naming of the package(s) for
lenny.

It is nearly 100% likely that we'll have to keep both Samba 3 (for
file and print services) and Samba 4 (for AD stuff) at the same time
in the archive.

My first idea would be suggesting to name samba 4 packages : samba4,
samba4-common, etc....and make sure they can co-exist with the current
samba packages.

That would mean requesting for the removal of the current samba
packages in experimental. Advices ?



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