[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#817036: Bug#817036: samba-dsdb-modules depends on version of libldb1 not in Debian

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon Mar 7 20:37:57 UTC 2016


On Mon, 2016-03-07 at 23:24 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote:
> Package: samba-dsdb-modules
> Version: 2:4.3.5+dfsg-2
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where
> appropriate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 
> Attempting to upgrade samba including samba-dsdb-modules  on Debian
> unstable 
> x86-64 to version 2:4.3.5+dfsg-2
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> 
> samba-dsdb-modules 2:4.3.5+dfsg-2 x86-64 depends on:
> 
> libldb1 < 2:1.1.25~ 
> and
> libldb1 > 2:1.1.24~
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> 
> I had to remove package samba-dsdb-modules to upgrade the rest of
> samba
> 
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> 
> What happened on i386 architecture:
> 
> libldb1 < 2:1.1.27~
> and 
> libldb1 > 2:1.1.26~
> 
> (Package libldb1 version 2:1.1.26-1 appears in both x86-64 and i386 
> architectures in Debian)

As background: samba-dsdb-modules depends strictly on the version of
LDB it was built against, because it uses an unstable internal API (the
module API has no ABI promises)

I realise this doesn't help you, but I hope it clarifies things,

Andrew Bartlett


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