[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#536322: Bug#536322: samba: Samba 3.4 should depend on libtalloc1 > 1.2.1-1

[Steve Langasek]

reassign 536322 libtalloc1
found 536322 1.3.1-1
severity 536322 serious
thanks

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:16:52PM -0700, David Liontooth wrote:
> Package: samba
> Version: 2:3.4.0-1
> Severity: normal

> On upgrading from samba 2:3.3.1-1 to 2:3.4.0-1, I got the following error:

> [2009/07/08 22:00:59,  0] smbd/server.c:1068(main)
>   smbd version 3.4.0 started.
>   Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2009
> /usr/sbin/smbd: symbol lookup error: /usr/sbin/smbd: undefined symbol: _talloc_get_type_abort

> My libtalloc1 was 1.2.1-1. A Google search suggested this could be the problem, and indeed upgrading to 1.3.1-1 resolved it.

The shlibs in libtalloc1 1.3.1 are wrong; they should have been incremented
to 1.3.1 so that packages depending on the new symbols get the right
dependency.

Indeed, talloc ought to use dpkg-gensymbols with an aggressive setting so
that these kinds of accidents can't slip into the archive at all.

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