[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#832880: Bug#832880: samba upgrade jessie => backported samba 4.4.5 stretch fails.

[Jelmer Vernooij]

notfound 832880 4.2.10
tags 832880 +unreproducible
thanks

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 10:54:17AM +0200, Louis van Belle wrote:
> Package: samba
> Version: 4.2.10
> Severity: normal
4.2.10 is a no non-existant version of Samba in Debian. 

> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 8.4
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> 
> When installing a backported samba 4.4.5, the install fails. 
> 
> Unpacking samba-vfs-modules (2:4.4.5+dfsg-2~bpo8+1) over (2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u3) ...
> dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/samba-vfs-modules_2%3a4.4.5+dfsg-2~bpo8+1_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man8/vfs_glusterfs.8.gz', which is also in package samba 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u3
> dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Did you have a custom version of Samba installed previously? According to
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/amd64/samba/filelist, there was no
vfs_glusterfs.8.gz in that package.

> The dirty fix works fine, 
> 
> dpkg -i --force-all /var/cache/apt/archives/samba-vfs-modules_2%3a4.4.5+dfsg-2~bpo8+1_i386.deb
> apt-get -f install
> 
> but we need to move /usr/share/man/man8/vfs_glusterfs.8.gz out of the samba package and in samba-vfs-modules
> to prevent this in the future.
It *is* in samba-vfs-modules in the newer version.