[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#833287: Bug#833287: feedback request about patch

[Andreas Hasenack]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 6:08 AM, Mathieu Parent <math.parent at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2017-06-14 9:37 GMT+02:00 Mathieu Parent <math.parent at gmail.com>:
> > 2017-06-13 17:12 GMT+02:00 Andreas Hasenack <andreas at canonical.com>:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> this bug was also filed against Ubuntu as
> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1584485, and in
> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/
> 1584485/comments/17 a
> >> patch was proposed to build libnss-winbind and libpam-winbind statically
> >> against the samba-libs.
> >>
> >> That introduced a regression (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1677329),
> >> however: pam_winbind had unresolved symbols at runtime and couldn't be
> >> loaded. The patch was reverted, and by mistake added back again at some
> >> later point.
> >>
> >> I'm linking a new version of that patch that fixes the regression, but
> I'm
> >> not familiar with the samba4 buildsystem and would like some feedback.
> I'm
> >> still working on the DEP3 header, the history of this one is a bit
> >> complicated.
> >
> > Another way to fix this is to tune the dependencies (using pre-depends
> > or Conflicts).
> >
> > Can you provide more info of which upgrade broke? (source/dest version)
>

This was the original bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1584485

http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/24856242/ has the terminal output showing the
failure. Note that winbind was in use by NSS.

The versions listed in that large output above are essentially showing an
upgrade of 4.1.6 to 4.3.9:
(...)
Unpacking libnss-winbind:amd64 (2:4.3.9+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) over
(2:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.13) ...
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar was killed by signal (Segmentation fault),
core dumped
(...)
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