[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#662801: Bug#662801: samba-common: Should *not* ask for workgroup when Debian is installed

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 10:20:13PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Olaf van der Spek (olafvdspek at gmail.com):
> > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Christian PERRIER <bubulle at debian.org> wrote:
> > > Quoting Olaf van der Spek (olafvdspek at gmail.com):
> > >
> > >> > workgroup question belongs to samba-common I have to admit that the
> > >> > question shouldn't be asked when people only install samba-common just
> > >> > because it's pulled as a dependency (I wonder which one).
> > >>
> > >> samba-common samba-common-bin smbclient
> > >
> > > OK, so next step..:-)...what is bringing smbclient in?

> > Don't know, the desktop task?
> > When removing samba it only removed those 3 pkgs.

> Hmmm, I don't understand, indeed.

> The desktop task doesn't itself pull smbclient or samba
> *directly*. Those are pulled...but only by the "file-server" task and,
> here, I think the workgroup question makes perfect sense.

> So, if you're only installing the desktop task:

> - first the samba *binary* package shouldn't be installed at all
> - then we need to find out what triggers smbclient, in order to check
> whether it can be droped entirely or not

I would guess that it's cups-client pulling in smbclient as a Recommends
that lands this in the desktop task.

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