[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#781913: Bug#781913: please build bindings for Python3 and let samba-common-bin use them

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 08:03:19PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 04/04/2015 07:40 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 07:31:59PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> >> Package: src:samba
> >> Version: 2:4.1.13+dfsg-4
> >>
> >> please build bindings for Python3 and let samba-common-bin use them
> > 
> > There are no Python3 bindings for Samba. Porting will be a large effort, and as
> > upstream we don't want to maintain support for two Python versions. 
> > 
> > What do you need the Python3 bindings for? Perhaps there are alternatives.
> 
> I was looking what is keeping Python2 on the Ubuntu desktop. For the samba
> bindings this is system-config-printer depending on gvfs-backends, depending on
> samba-libs.

I think getting rid of the Python dependency in samba-libs is a much
easier to achieve goal here.

AFAICT The only reason that samba-libs depends on python is because
libsamba-net can do provisioning of a local DC (requires the 'samba'
package to be installed) by invoking the provision script using Python.

So if we could move that functionality out to a separate library that
is not included with samba-libs, we could drop the dependency on
python2 in samba-libs.

Jelmer

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Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at debian.org>
Debian Developer                           https://jelmer.uk/
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