[Pkg-samba-maint] Armel samba and samba-common-bin packages

[Steve Langasek]

hi Jonas,

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 01:18:36AM +0100, Jonas P. wrote:
> just a short note to tell you that these two packages could not be
> installed on my debian system because of their control files specifying a
> "python2.7:all" dependance that resulted in an error message during apt-get
> update.

I'm reasonably certain this is "python2.7:any", not "python2.7:all".  The
latter would be a bug, the former is deliberate behavior supported in recent
versions of Debian.

> I'm not a debian user (slackware) but I updated my debian-based arm home
> NAS recently and it broke samba so I had to get into it.

> Hope this is clear to you.

> If I can be of any help, tell me.

What version of these packages are you trying to install, and on what
version of Debian are you trying to install them?  It sounds like you're
trying to install binary packages built for the current testing/unstable
version of Debian onto a stable system.  This is not supported because a
newer version of the python2.7 package is needed that supports
cross-architecture dependencies.

There are backported versions of samba available at
http://backports.debian.org/, where the sources from unstable are rebuilt
against the stable version of Debian.  You should be able to use those
packages on your system without error.

Hope that helps,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 836 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-samba-maint/attachments/20131223/5afabeab/attachment.sig>