[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#820951: samba-libs requires samba

[Daniel Bakken]

Package: samba-libs
Version: 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u1

Attempting to upgrade samba-libs in jessie unexpectedly requires me to install the samba package. See below:


root at myserver:~# apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libgssapi3-heimdal libheimntlm0-heimdal
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libhdb9-heimdal python-dnspython python-ldb python-ntdb python-samba
  python-tdb samba samba-common samba-common-bin samba-dsdb-modules tdb-tools
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libldb1 libsmbclient libtalloc2 libtdb1 libtevent0 libwbclient0
  python-talloc samba-libs
8 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 9,040 kB of archives.
After this operation, 23.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

I do not want samba on this server, and it was not previously required for samba-libs. Please remove the dependency on samba.