[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#453144: samba: Please remove Recommends: smbldap-tools

[Andrew Moise]

Package: samba
Version: 3.0.24-6etch6
Severity: normal

  When I attempt to install samba on this server, I am greeted with:

The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
  libcompress-zlib-perl libconvert-asn1-perl libcrypt-smbhash-perl
  libcupsys2 libdigest-md4-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libfont-afm-perl
  libhtml-format-perl libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl
  libhtml-tree-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libjcode-pm-perl
  libmailtools-perl libnet-ldap-perl libnet-ssleay-perl libtimedate-perl
  libunicode-map-perl libunicode-map8-perl libunicode-maputf8-perl
  libunicode-string-perl liburi-perl libwww-perl samba-common smbldap-tools

  That seems like an excessive set of packages to install; it seems that
the large number of perl packages is a result of the Recommends on
smbldap-tools.  Given that Recommends is supposed to indicate "packages
that would be found together with this one in all but unusual
installations" (policy section 7.2), and the vast majority of samba
installations will not involve LDAP, it seems wrong to install 23
unnecessary packages when all I really need is samba, libcupsys2, and
samba-common.
  Thanks.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages samba depends on:
ii  debconf  1.5.11                          Debian configuration management sy
ii  libacl1  2.2.41-1                        Access control list shared library
ii  libattr1 2.4.32-1                        Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6    2.3.6.ds1-13etch2               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomer 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2 common error description library
ii  libcupsy 1.2.7-4etch1                    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii  libgnutl 1.4.4-3                         the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53 1.4.4-7etch4                    MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap2 2.1.30-13.3                     OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam-m 0.79-4                          Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-r 0.79-4                          Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g 0.79-4                          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpopt0 1.10-3                          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  logrotat 3.7.1-3                         Log rotation utility
ii  lsb-base 3.1-23.2etch1                   Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  netbase  4.29                            Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  procps   1:3.2.7-3                       /proc file system utilities
ii  samba-co 3.0.24-6etch6                   Samba common files used by both th
ii  zlib1g   1:1.2.3-13                      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages samba recommends:
pn  smbldap-tools                 <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information excluded