[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#524048: Bug#524048: samba: Error loading module acl_xattr.so

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 06:01:34AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):

> > I fear this is probably due to the shrink_dead_code patch, whose express
> > purpose is to trim functions out of the binaries that aren't used in the
> > program - we have no good way to detect that we want to keep these for the
> > benefit of external vfs modules, and in this case the external vfs modules
> > are the *only* things using this function.

> I was fearing something like this...

> Could we go back to the reasons that made us use this patch
> (apparently the comments have vanished in the patch). IIRC,
> this was because of a user mentioning the binaries' "bloat". However,
> if reducing that bloat makes us lose some functionality, I would
> prefer dropping the patch (which would: 1) make us closer from
> upstream 2) save me a lot of time when merging new upstream versions).

Please give me time to come up with another solution for the package size
problem.  It's been suggested that the ndr code can be split out into a
shared library; I'd like to take a crack and this and propose it upstream. 
That should be enough to avoid the need for hackish code-pruning, while
still leaving the binary packages somewhat smaller than the gargantuan
monsters they are otherwise.

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