[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#706434: Bug#706434: cifs-utils: Can the recommend on winbind be changed to suggests?

[Ivo De Decker]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:03:35PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:

Hi Holger,

> > Hi.  We discovered to our surprise in Debian Edu that the PAM setup in
> > Wheezy now got pam_winbind enabled.
> 
> (which breaks our login)

Do you have any idea how pam_winbind is breaking your login? Is there an easy
way to reproduce this?


> > I do not really understand what that change is all about, so my request
> > might be misguided.  But in any case, I ask this simple question:
> > 
> > Can cifs-utils be changed to only suggest winbind instead of
> > recommending it?
> 
> Looking at these relations, I (instead) wonder whether winbind really should 
> recommend libpam-winbind !?

In squeeze, the winbind pam and nss modules are in the winbind package. For
wheezy, winbind recommends libpam-winbind and libnss-winbind to make sure
upgrades from squeeze to wheezy pull in those modules to avoid breaking
existing setups.
Some users even requested that this relation be upgraded to depends (#674853),
which we didn't do.

Post wheezy, this recommends can be lowered.



Cheers,

Ivo