[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#821121: Bug#821121: samba-libs: libsamba-debug.so unavailable

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2016-04-15 at 21:24 +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 08:15:11PM +0200, Benjamin Bouvier wrote:
> > Package: samba-libs
> > Version: 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u2
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> >    * What led up to the situation?
> > The samba-libs package renders greyhole (redundant storage pooling
> > using Samba) nonfunctional.
> > 
> >    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> >      ineffective)?
> > 
> > The readelf command shows a dependency of the greyhole VFS module
> > upon libsamba-debug-samba4.so, which is not provided by the samba
> > -libs package. By comparison, it is provided in the stretch
> > (testing) package, and in corresponding RPMs for other linux
> > distros.
> 
> This is a bug in greyhole, it sould not depend on non-public APIs.

This is a bit more of a grey area (pardon the pun) for VFS modules
(given they build in-tree), but I do expect the followup bug of 'the
VFS interface changed' shortly.

Packaging VFS modules is similar to packaging ldb modules in
complexity, sadly, and we never had a good out-of-tree build process
for those.

Andrew Bartlett

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