[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#1051770: move services and binaries for AD DC setup to package samba-ad-dc

[Michael Tokarev]

Control: tag -1 + moreinfo

12.09.2023 14:14, Lee Garrett wrote:
> Source: samba
> Severity: minor
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian at rocketjump.eu
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I believe it would be a good idea to move the binaries and services required for
> AD DC operation to the package samba-ad-dc. Currently it's possible to run such
> a setup without installing the package, as it's just a metapackage.

Sure it is a meta-package, and it is described as such.

> Moving the binaries/services over would have the benefit of being able to drop
> the support of this package separately from the samba server, as it currently is
> for oldstable and older.

Which binaries/services do you mean, specially?  I for one know just one: it is
samba.service (and the init script) which starts samba-ad-dc, that's just two files.

/mjt