[Pkg-samba-maint] Samba 4.0: Upload to unstable.

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 10:07 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 09:44:42PM -0700, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Sat, 2013-09-14 at 14:25 +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > > This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script.
> > > 
> > > jelmer pushed a commit to branch samba_4.0_integration
> > > in repository samba.
> > > 
> > > commit bf062149e977f90df5a1a23b4050438e0e8f9988
> > > Author: Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org>
> > > Date:   Sat Sep 14 14:50:10 2013 +0100
> > > 
> > >     Upload to unstable.
> > 
> > Just curious, how is the 4.0 packaging going?  Are we ready for or
> > pending for unstable?
> 
> We've got a package that moves most of the libs into the samba-libs
> package, but I haven't done much testing of it.
> 
> Steve asked about splitting the samba-libs package on client/server
> lines. There is no obvious way to do such a split, but I haven't had
> time to prove that it can't be done.

I would prove it this way:

Is samba-tool a client or server tool?  The reality is that it is both,
and needs the full dsdb stack (server) as well as client libs.  A
'client binaries' package missing samba-tool would feel quite limited.  

The same applies to smbpasswd and net, which links to passdb but is also
a client tool.  

Perhaps we should have pure client tools, but we don't, and the best we
have now is that we use shared libraries to reduce the disk space cost
for that. 

Andrew Bartlett

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