[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#1006875: samba-libs: The dependency on python3-talloc breaks multiarch support

[Michael Tokarev]

On Mon, 07 Mar 2022 12:01:43 +0100 Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr> wrote:
> Package: samba-libs
> Version: 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> samba-libs claims to support multiarch (Multiarch: same) but it depends
> on python3-talloc which does not support multiarch.
> 
> python3-talloc seems to depend closely on the main python3 package so
> I am not sure it would make sense to make it multiarch. So maybe it is
> samba-libs that should not depend on it. Could the dependency be moved
> to another package which would be, for instance, multiarch=foreign?

I wonder why samba-libs does depend on python3-anything to start with.
It looks like this should not be the case.

All python-related files has been in a separate package, python3-samba,
and that one rightfully depends on python3-talloc python3-ldb and some
others.  But samba-libs, apparently, supposed to be without python
modules..

$ dpkg -L samba-libs | grep python
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-policy.cpython-39-x86-64-linux-gnu.so.0.0.1
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-policy.cpython-39-x86-64-linux-gnu.so.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-net.cpython-39-x86-64-linux-gnu-samba4.so.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-python.cpython-39-x86-64-linux-gnu-samba4.so.0

I wonder if we should move this one into python3-samba package?

And it seems this to be the case for a very long time, this
particular python module has always been in samba-libs pkg
instead of python3-samba package. Apparently forgotten when
the python samba package has been created.

..I did an experiment, and it looks like it worked fine. So
I'll include this file move in the upcoming 4.16 release.

Thanks,

/mjt