[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#820015: Bug#820015: Samba breaks with talloc 2.1.6

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2016-04-05 at 09:36 +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 21:15 +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 07:32:10AM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > Package: samba
> > > Version: 2:4.3.6+dfsg-1
> > > 
> > > Samba will not provision if the new talloc 2.1.6 is packaged and
> > > installed, due to a type mixup that is now checked for in the
> > > improved
> > > python-talloc bindings.
> > > 
> > > The patches for this are already upstream in Samba 4.4 and
> > > accepted
> > > for
> > > Samba 4.3:
> > > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11789
> > > 
> > > The error, during provision or dbcheck is:
> > > 
> > > ERROR(runtime): uncaught exception - pytalloc_reference_ex()
> > > called
> > > for
> > > object type not based on talloc
> > > 
> > > We need those patches, and a Breaks statement in talloc (both in
> > > my
> > > proposed packages).
> > I uploaded talloc before I saw this bug. I don't see the addition
> > of
> > a
> > "Breaks:" in your packaging. Can you add it?
> 
> Sorry, I only did that late last night:
> 
> https://git.samba.org/abartlet/talloc-debian.git/?p=abartlet/talloc-d
> ebian.git;a=commitdiff;h=c234170a36f43f0ab20faae3506dde2e53b704ba

BTW, it means we need to release the new samba 4.3 package Mathieu did
otherwise there won't be an installable combination in unstable.

(I was going to keep this to experimental for the moment so as not to
break existing Samba, but fixing Samba is just as good an option).

Andrew Bartlett

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