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

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 07:47 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> 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.

I've added a dependency and moved the files back to libsmbd0 where they
belong. 

> 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.

The only thing that remains is to ensure upgrades work.  Do we have to
add some 'breaks' stuff - ideally I would mark every package here as
'breaks' if installed with a different binary version of any other Samba
package, but that doesn't seem to be easy to do.

Andrew Bartlett

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