[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#607500: Bug#607500: The samba package should at least recommend or suggest samba-common-bin

Christian PERRIER bubulle at debian.org
Sun Dec 19 08:53:15 UTC 2010


Quoting June Tate-Gans (june at theonelab.com):
> Package: samba
> Version: 2:3.5.6~dfsg-3
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> Upon a simple install of the samba server via the usual method (apt-get
> install samba), it appears that basic configuration tools and management
> utilities are not installed, such as smbpasswd. Turns out, in Squeeze, these are
> in a new package called `samba-common-bin' which isn't recommended or even
> suggested in the samba package.
> 
> We should fix that lest we have users complaining down the road.

samba depends on samba-common that Recommends samba-common-bin

Recommends are now installed by default, so on a default install,
samba-common-bin will be installed.


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