[Pkg-samba-maint] ldb modules dir and <ldb.h> placement: is ldb samba-specific or not?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2022-04-11 at 11:32 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > I hope this helps.
> 
> Is ldb supposed to be its own or is it a part of samba?
> 
> If it is not part of samba, it should stay separate and
> build from its own source.

This is a question for the ages.  I think I've discussed the idea of
split out libraries that were to live their own life vs the current
reality of 'helpful for samba, distributed for others (if only sssd and
the late openchange)'.  

(I think you know I'm keen for ldb to be just like libsmbclient
upstream, eventually, as the 'own life' future never happened. )

I also apologise if I've misrepresented what the previous state was - I
should have checked on the installed situation rather than just spoke
generalities.  Nobody but sssd uses LDB, I should have stopped making
life complex by mentioning licences. 

I'll fess up - I've also not been following the actual patches and git
trees, just reading and answering the mails. 

All I would say is that my instinct and suggestion - noting that I'm
not even a Debian user - would be to make things as identical to the
previous install pattern as possible, at least initially.

That just comes from how I would do it in Samba, for this or any
similar thing.  We go to great lengths to change everything and nothing
all at once. :-)

Andrew Bartlett

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