[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#488384: samba: Missing ldb admin tools in 3.2 packages

[John H Terpstra]

On Saturday 28 June 2008 09:02:14 Christian Perrier wrote:
> Package: samba
> Version: 2:3.2.0~rc2-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Quoting John H Terpstra (jht at samba.org):
>
> (originally private mail. I'm taking the private parts out)
>
> > Just as a follow up, do you include the ldb admin tools with the samba
> > 3.2.x package? I did not find them and they are very necessary for
> > administering the 3.2 series. These tools, ldbadd, etc. are built as part
> > of a standard build process.
> >
> > Were these files overlooked or am I smoking something that is not good
> > for me? :-)
>
> This is just an omission, indeed.

Not a problem. Glad it was caught early.

> So, let's report this against the package. We should add the following
> to one of our binary packages:
>
> ldbadd, ldbsearch, ldbdel, ldbmodify, ldbedit, ldbrename, ldbtest,
> oLschema2ldif(?)

Yes. This list is OK.

> We could add them to samba-tools which already includes smbtorture
> msgtest masktest locktest locktest2 nsstest vfstest pdbtest talloctort
> replacetort tdbtorture smbconftort.
>
> And we could have samba "Suggests:"  samba-tools if ldb tools are
> important to manage Samba 3.2 servers.
>
> If ldb utilities are more important, then we should probably include
> them in the samba-common package (if they're relevant to both samba
> and smbclient) or samba (if they're relevant only for samba)

My vote would be to put these tools into the samba-common package, but 
samba-tools is OK too.

Cheers,
John T.