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Bug#633841: proposal of package name change to python-samba4

July 14th, 2011 - 05:20 am ET by Arvid Requate | Report spam
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Package: python-samba
Version: 4.0.0~alpha15.dfsg1-1
Severity: important


A package named "python-samba" used to be build from the source package "samba"
(3.0.24-6+lenny3) in lenny. This binary package was removed from debian/control
later on (2:3.2.5-4lenny14 see http://packages.debian.org/source/lenny/samba),
but some derived distributions have reenabled the build of python-samba in the
source package. Since this version has an epoch of 2, the normal upgrade of the
python-samba package to the current one build from the source package "samba4"
fails. This can be avoided by simply renaming the package.

Also, to match the naming scheme of samba4/samba4-clients/winbind4 it would be
good to rename the binary package to "python-samba4".

Debian Release: 5.0.1
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-ucs44-amd64
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)



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#1 Jelmer Vernooij
July 26th, 2011 - 07:30 am ET | Report spam

On 07/14/2011 11:10 AM, Arvid Requate wrote:
A package named "python-samba" used to be build from the source package "samba"
(3.0.24-6+lenny3) in lenny. This binary package was removed from debian/control
later on (2:3.2.5-4lenny14 see http://packages.debian.org/source/lenny/samba),
but some derived distributions have reenabled the build of python-samba in the
source package. Since this version has an epoch of 2, the normal upgrade of the
python-samba package to the current one build from the source package "samba4"
fails. This can be avoided by simply renaming the package.

Also, to match the naming scheme of samba4/samba4-clients/winbind4 it would be
good to rename the binary package to "python-samba4".



This would be inconvenient since the python package is actually called
"samba". It would also mean we would need a transition in Debian to move from python-samba to python-samba4.

The python bindings in Samba 3 were disabled for a good reason. Debian
didn't ship a python-samba in squeeze, and python-samba in lenny didn't
have an epoch yet so it should be fine for us to use that name now.

Cheers,

Jelmer






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