[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#650091: Bug#650091: Bug#650091: libpam-winbind package description

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Mon Nov 28 06:56:29 UTC 2011


On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 03:43:06AM +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> Winbind itself isn't actually related to NetBIOS, and doesn't
> provide any NetBIOS-related functionality. I don't think we should
> talk about NetBIOS in the winbind package description.

Indeed not.

> I'm not sure why libpam-wins is in the libpam-winbind package these
> days; I imagine most people who use winbind don't actually use
> libpam-wins.

It's included in libpam-winbind because it hasn't been worth splitting into
a separate binary package.  I don't object to it being split out, though.

Anyway, I've fixed the libpam-winbind description in svn.

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