[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#820947: smbclient: [regression] pulls the server package "samba" via samba-libs since 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u1 (DSA 3548-1)

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Harald Dunkel wrote:
> I think you underestimate the problem.

Nope.

> The next unattended upgrade (using the 2nd set of new samba 4.2
> packages) ran into a dependency problem:
> Unpacking samba-libs:amd64 (2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u2) over (2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u1) ...
> dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/samba-libs_2%3a4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsmbd-base.so.0', which is also in package samba 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u1
> dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
[...]
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/samba-libs_2%3a4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u2_amd64.deb

That's a known issue and probably will be fixed with a further
regression update.

> This won't go away.

In another mail to this bug report, someone said, "apt-get install -f"
fixed it for him.

> Even worse, after this the samba package
> seems to have lost the "automatically installed" flag:
> 
> # dpkg -l samba
[...]
> iU  samba          2:4.2.10+dfs amd64        SMB/CIFS file, print, and login s

dpkg doesn't know anything about an "automatically installed" flag.
Only apt, aptitude and friends do.

		Regards, Axel
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