[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#1021450: Bug#1021450: bloated depends: samba-libs now depends on samba

[Michael Tokarev]

Control: tag -1 + confirmed pending

08.10.2022 21:51, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Package: samba
> Version: 2:4.17.0+dfsg-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: experimental
> 
> Hi,
> 
> thanks a lot for maintaining samba, much appreciated!
> 
> Unfortunately, the 4.17 uploads to experimental have samba-libs depend
> on samba, which means that a lot of other packages that previously only
> depended on libraries now pull in a (by default) running samba daemon,
> which is quite a bit of bloat..
> 
> I guess this was not intended as this wasn't the case with 4.16 packages
> in sid.

Oh. Indeed it is the case, and indeed, it is definitely not intended.
I'm adding another build-time check for this as has already been done
for other interdependencies, and moving another lib between packages.

Oh well.

I did check if samba package works, which was the main question, but
didn't thought about this scenario.

Thank you for the bugreport!

/mjt