[Pkg-samba-maint] [SCM] Debian packaging for Samba branch, samba_4.0, updated. upstream/4.0.6+dfsg-822-gbbe4102

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Sat Jun 1 01:13:16 UTC 2013


On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 03:20:20PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 22:23 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > Here also, we maybe need to make sure the package goes away
> > > (Breaks/Conflicts with one of our packages and check reverse
> > > dependencies).

> > Obsolete packages should be cleaned up using a package manager frontend
> > that reports that they are obsolete, not by adding Conflicts for things
> > that aren't actually conflicting.

> Given it would attempt to edit the smb.conf file, I think it is safe to
> say that it conflicts.  We with it were stand-alone, and not using our
> libs etc, as then we could just set it free to live/die on it's own, but
> sadly that's just not the case.

Ok, that's a good point.  If using swat can actually break the system, then
a Conflicts is reasonable here.

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