[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#781913: Bug#781913: please build bindings for Python3 and let samba-common-bin use them

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Apr 05, 2015 at 06:11:09PM +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > Now, with:

> > Description: Nautilus extension to share folder using Samba
> >  Nautilus Share allows you to quickly share a folder from
> >  the GNOME Nautilus file manager without requiring root access.

> > it requires samba to work, so the package installs samba before running
> > anything. I still have to find out why it needs to run these two commands before
> > installing samba anyway.

> Ah, of course. Why does it not have a hard dependency on Samba
> in that case? It seems like sharing folders over SMB is impossible
> without the server.

To reduce the size of the dependencies pulled in by default on the desktop
before these are needed.  This is a desktop sharing mechanism that's made
available by default, but we don't want the samba server installed (and
therefore enabled) by default on the desktop.

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