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

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 06:01:34AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
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>> Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):
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>>> 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...
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>   
>> 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.
>   
FWIW We are already working on this upstream; Volker and I discussed
building a separate shared library for libndr and the generated ndr code
during SambaXP.

Cheers,

Jelmer