[Pkg-samba-maint] [SCM] Debian packaging for Samba branch, samba_4.0_bubulle, updated. upstream/4.0.5+dfsg1-789-gda57358

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Andrew Bartlett (abartlet at samba.org):

> > > Also : the VFS modules were originally provided in samba in 3.6
> > > packages. So that change is part of our current policy to not move
> > > files around between packages in the 3.6->4.0 transition.
> 
> Why do we have that policy?  It seems silly to apply that to new library
> packages crated by splitting things out due to the way the new build
> system works, and the new things that depend on each other. 

Not really strict policy. If there is a good reason, there is no
problem in moving files around. But that creates more hassle to
guarantee that users who had some files in the 3.6 installs will still
have them in new installs. Nothing that can't be worked around....but
something that makes things more complicated.

Most of the work we did at SambaXP with Ivo was tracking the
differences in content between 3.6 and 4.0 packages. There were listed
but, of course, all valid arguments to move them around may make these
assumptionsn change.


> > modules, they could need to be in a different package (like libsmbd0). But I
> > don't think that's the case.
> 
> That is incorrect.  The reason these were intentionally put in libsmbd0,
> on which samba must depend, is that the python bindings for libsmbd
> (used by samba-tool ntacl) need the VFS modules.  libsmbd contains
> almost the code for smbd.

OK, so maybe that change is to be reverted, then.


> Finally in the TODO list, we need to ensure we don't ship manpages for
> binaries we don't ship, like vfstest.1 (which we upstream stopped
> suggesting for public consumption, it is a developer tool). 


I think I went through this in the samba_4.0_bubulle branch, for most
of the manpages. We also need to provide manpages in the same package
the binary they document is.

Indeed, I think that the work I did on manpages mostly emptied the
samba-doc package..:-)


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