[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#673122: Bug#673122: Bug#673122: libnss-winbind: missing Replaces

[Ivo De Decker]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 08:58:22AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:38:31AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > > (Also, I don't see why you didn't just make libpam-winbind depend on
> > > libnss-winbind.  #646292 requests the ability to install the NSS modules
> > > without the PAM modules, but not vice versa.  So why not just make the
> > > PAM module package require the NSS module package, and then everything
> > > would just work on upgrade and you wouldn't need the NEWS.Debian hack?)
> 
> > Well, how about Recommends?
> 
> > I suspect some people might find use cases for the PAM module without
> > the NSS modules though none come actually to my mind.
> 
> I don't think we should cater to such use cases.  Indeed, I was unconvinced
> that we should split the binary packages at all for this; but having done
> so, I see no reason why we care about someone wanting libpam-winbind without
> libnss-winbind.  If you're doing authentication via winbind, it's silly to
> not also do the UID mapping part.

What's wrong with using recommends in this case? This allows users to use
libpam-winbind without libnss-winbind (whatever their use case would be), while
resolving the issues caused by the split.

There is no strong dependency between libpam-winbind and libnss-winbind. It's
just that libpam-winbind is usually used together with libnss-winbind.
Recommends seems more appropriate in this case.

Ivo