[Pkg-samba-maint] Broken Samba4

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 05:01:42PM +0200, Niklas Andersson wrote:
> Tried to install Samba4 in both Ubuntu 12.04 (latest alpha) and Ubuntu
> 12.10 (beta 2) and the installation doesn't work as it ends with an error
> and the package half-installed.
> 
> There is a nice howto that explains how to create a work-around. Edit
> /var/dpkg/status and set half-installed to installed, etc.
> http://www.matrix44.net/cms/notes/gnulinux/samba-4-ad-domain-with-ubuntu-12-04
> 
> It is ugly of course and I think it is better to set the package to
> installed from the start. What is the problem keeping you from setting the
> package to installed when running "apt-get install samba4"?

See this bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/samba4/+bug/988509

This bug has been fixed in Ubuntu 12.10. The open report is about
backporting the fix to Ubuntu 12.04.

(Note that this address is for the Debian package maintainance of
Samba 4, please file Ubuntu bugs in Launchpadi rather than here)

Cheers,

Jelmer