[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#597987: Bug#597987: Bug#597987: libsmbclient-dev: Unnecessary(?) Depends on samba-common

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Sat Sep 25 06:44:02 UTC 2010


On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 07:37:48AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting James Vega (jamessan at debian.org):
> > Package: libsmbclient-dev
> > Version: 2:3.4.0~pre2-1
> > Severity: minor

> > When samba-common was split into samba-common + samba-common-bin,
> > libsmbclient-dev gained a dependency on samba-common[0].  It seems like the
> > Depends would be more appropriate in libsmbclient, if it is needed at all.

> Indeed. At least, I see no reason for the dependency. And even for
> libsmbclient, I'm not sure it's needed either.

> Steve, advice?

It would make some amount of sense for libsmbclient to depend on
samba-common which provides the working smb.conf; but since we haven't done
that before now and no one complained, it seems to not be that important.

libsmbclient-dev, however, should certainly not depend on samba-common
AFAICS.  The change was introduced by Jelmer when splitting samba-common,
but I can't see why.  Jelmer, do you remember if this was intentional and
has some hidden purpose I can't spot?

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