[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#821121: Bug#821121: Bug#821121: samba-libs: libsamba-debug.so unavailable

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 09:55:07AM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-04-15 at 21:24 +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 08:15:11PM +0200, Benjamin Bouvier wrote:
> > > Package: samba-libs
> > > Version: 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u2
> > > Severity: important
> > > 
> > > Dear Maintainer,
> > > 
> > >    * What led up to the situation?
> > > The samba-libs package renders greyhole (redundant storage pooling
> > > using Samba) nonfunctional.
> > > 
> > >    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> > >      ineffective)?
> > > 
> > > The readelf command shows a dependency of the greyhole VFS module
> > > upon libsamba-debug-samba4.so, which is not provided by the samba
> > > -libs package. By comparison, it is provided in the stretch
> > > (testing) package, and in corresponding RPMs for other linux
> > > distros.
> > 
> > This is a bug in greyhole, it sould not depend on non-public APIs.
> 
> This is a bit more of a grey area (pardon the pun) for VFS modules
> (given they build in-tree), but I do expect the followup bug of 'the
> VFS interface changed' shortly.

> Packaging VFS modules is similar to packaging ldb modules in
> complexity, sadly, and we never had a good out-of-tree build process
> for those.
greyhole is not in Debian. The current situation (where we can't build
out-of-tree VFS modules) is exactly why there are packages of vfs
modules in the archive.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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