[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#1068360: samba-gpupdate should be in samba-common-bin

[Patrick Hibbs]

Package: samba
Version: 2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: hibbsncc1701 at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

I noticed that the group policy tool (/usr/sbin/samba-gpupdate) in Debian is
stored in the samba package. This seems to be a poor choice of placement as
group policies are expected to be applied on all domain joined hosts, and you
can join a domain with just the samba-common-bin and sssd-ad packages, but the
samba package is only installed if the SMB file server component is required.

It doesn't seem right to mandate installation of the SMB file server package,
most of which will go unused, just to have the group policy tool available.

Would it be possible to move the group policy tool to the more generic samba-
common-bin package? Or perhaps a package of it's own if the samba-common-bin
package is inappropriate?


-- Package-specific info:
* /etc/samba/smb.conf present, but not attached
* /var/lib/samba/dhcp.conf present, but not attached

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (400, 'oldstable-updates'), (400, 'oldstable-security'), (400, 'unstable'), (400, 'stable'), (100, 'bookworm-fasttrack'), (100, 'bookworm-backports-staging')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, arm64

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-18-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages samba depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.65.2
ii  libbsd0              0.11.7-2
ii  libc6                2.36-9+deb12u4
ii  libcups2             2.4.2-3+deb12u5
ii  libgnutls30          3.7.9-2+deb12u2
ii  libldap-2.5-0        2.5.13+dfsg-5
ii  libldb2              2:2.6.2+samba4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1
ii  libpam-modules       1.5.2-6+deb12u1
ii  libpam-runtime       1.5.2-6+deb12u1
ii  libpopt0             1.19+dfsg-1
ii  libtalloc2           2.4.0-f2
ii  libtasn1-6           4.19.0-2
ii  libtdb1              1.4.8-2
ii  libtevent0           0.14.1-1
ii  passwd               1:4.13+dfsg1-1+b1
ii  procps               2:4.0.2-3
ii  python3              3.11.2-1+b1
ii  python3-dnspython    2.3.0-1
ii  python3-samba        2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1
ii  samba-common         2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1
ii  samba-common-bin     2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1
ii  samba-libs           2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1
ii  tdb-tools            1.4.8-2

Versions of packages samba recommends:
ii  attr                1:2.5.1-4
ii  logrotate           3.21.0-1
ii  python3-markdown    3.4.1-2
ii  samba-ad-provision  2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1
ii  samba-dsdb-modules  2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1
ii  samba-vfs-modules   2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1

Versions of packages samba suggests:
pn  bind9       <none>
pn  bind9utils  <none>
ii  chrony      4.3-2+deb12u1
pn  ctdb        <none>
pn  ldb-tools   <none>
pn  ufw         <none>
pn  winbind     <none>

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