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

[Michael Tokarev]

04.04.2024 10:42, 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.

How would you join a computer without main samba component to a domain, and how
would you process group policy in this case?

/mjt