[Pkg-sssd-devel] Bug#995730: Bug#995730: libnss-sss: sssd protocol is not stable; libnss-sss and so on need stricter dependencies

[Timo Aaltonen]

On 4.10.2021 21.13, Sam Morris wrote:
> Package: libnss-sss
> Version: 2.5.2-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> I upgraded sssd today, and found that netgroup lookups no longer worked.
> 
> See <https://github.com/SSSD/sssd/issues/5805> for the details. The
> underlying reason was that I had not upgraded libnss-sss, and the older
> libnss_sss.so.2 was unable to understand messages from the newer sssd.
> 
> Can stricter dependencies be used to make sure that libnss-sss (and
> probably libpam-sss and libsss-sudo) are upgraded in lockstep with sssd?
> 
> For libnss-sss this is a bit tricky since it only Recommends sssd; and
> sssd-common only Recommends libnss-sss. Maybe Breaks can be used?
> 
> OTOH, libnss-sss (and libpam-sss and libsss-sudo) don't seem very useful
> without sssd, so maybe they could be change to Depend on it by exact
> version. Or even be rolled into the sssd package?
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 11.0
>    APT prefers stable-updates
>    APT policy: (550, 'stable-updates'), (550, 'stable'), (530, 'testing'), (520, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable-security'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> 
> Versions of packages libnss-sss depends on:
> ii  libc6  2.32-4
> 
> Versions of packages libnss-sss recommends:
> ii  sssd  2.5.2-3
> 
> libnss-sss suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
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Shouldn't dist-upgrade have updated everything you need?

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