[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#524048: Bug#524048: samba: Error loading module acl_xattr.so

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):

> > Could we go back to the reasons that made us use this patch
> > (apparently the comments have vanished in the patch). IIRC,
> > this was because of a user mentioning the binaries' "bloat". However,
> > if reducing that bloat makes us lose some functionality, I would
> > prefer dropping the patch (which would: 1) make us closer from
> > upstream 2) save me a lot of time when merging new upstream versions).
> 
> Please give me time to come up with another solution for the package size
> problem.  It's been suggested that the ndr code can be split out into a
> shared library; I'd like to take a crack and this and propose it upstream. 
> That should be enough to avoid the need for hackish code-pruning, while
> still leaving the binary packages somewhat smaller than the gargantuan
> monsters they are otherwise.


As #524048 is somewhat annoying, what do you think is best for unstable?

-leave with it and wait for you to move the ndr code to a library
-drop the shrik-dead-code.patch patch while you're working on this

Also, that issue most certainly happens in stable, so should we do one
step back and drop shrink-dead-code.patch in stable so that our users
can load VFS modules in lenny ?


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