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

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 09:45:15AM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 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.
Yes, I'm working on this at the moment. Note that it is perfectly
valid and somewhat common that people only run some packages (such as
talloc) out of experimental, but the rest out of 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).
We should really add the Breaks and fix Samba at the same time,
otherwise people can inadvertently end up with a combination that is
broken (samba from unstable, talloc from experimental)

Jelmer

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