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

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 08:40:54AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> I notice that I forgot to explain the reasons for which I did the
> split: I have found admins at my workplace often confused by the fact
> that libPAM-<something> was needed to install libNSS-<something> in
> the case of winbind. So, seeing that some other person was advocating
> for this has been the final convincing step (also seeing that we have
> other libnss-<something> packages in Debian, too).

Right, fair enough.  I'm not really objecting to the split or asking for it
to be reverted, just noting that I didn't think it was worth doing.  But I
didn't have to do it. ;)

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:55:50AM +0200, Ivo De Decker wrote:

> 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.

My principal concern here is that there are various misguided users who
disable recommends by default on their systems.  But on reflection, I think
you're correct and Recommends is the right relationship here, since the
packages would be found together "in all but unusual cases".

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Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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