[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#674853: Bug#674853: winbind should depend on libpam-winbind and libnss-winbind for wheezy

[Philipp Kern]

# It seems that Christian missed to Cc control@, so copying the instructions
# here.
severity 674853 important
thanks

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 08:48:54PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Either not installing Recommends (which is a *global* setting in Debian) 
> is considered a valid setup through all of Debian, or it is anyway 
> considered broken. In the latter case there would be no reason against 
> changing the Recommends to Depends...

I'm sorry that I have to quote policy to you:

| Recommends
|
|    This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.
|
|    The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together
|    with this one in all but unusual installations.

It's pretty clear that winbind can be used usefully without those two packages
(e.g. for RADIUS auth against Active Directory), but that, as you said, they
should be there in usual installations.  That's the definition of recommends.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern