Please raise Suggests for lib{pam,nss}-winbind to Recommends in trusty
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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samba (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Trusty |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Brian Murray |
Bug Description
Test Case
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In a precise system install samba and libpam-winbind
Upgrade to trusty
Observe that libnss-winbind is not installed
With the version of the package from -proposed, after the upgrade libnss-winbind will be install on the system.
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The Debian packaging of Samba demoted the Recommends relationships to libpam-winbind and libnss-winbind to Suggests after one Debian release:
samba (2:3.6.15-1) unstable; urgency=high
* Team upload.
* New upstream bugfix release. Closes: #707042
* Update VCS URL's for new git repo.
* The recommends for the separate libnss-winbind and libpam-winbind
packages needed for the upgrade of winbind from squeeze to wheezy are no
longer needed. Lowering them to suggests.
Closes: #706434, #674853
-- Ivo De Decker <email address hidden> Thu, 09 May 2013 11:55:03 +0200
Unfortunately this isn't enough for the Ubuntu LTS cycle. libpam-winbind was a separate package in Precise, but libnss-winbind wasn't, and the release-upgrader therefore doesn't know to install it. Can those relationships be restored to Recommends in trusty-updates? (This delta doesn't need to be kept past Trusty.)
We upgraded a server from Precise to Trusty this weekend and it was really confusing to track down why nobody could log in any more. I know it's been a while since the Trusty release, but given that Precise is around for two more years, I strongly suspect we're not the last people to upgrade a winbind-using Precise machine, and configuring samba correctly is confusing enough as it is. :)
Changed in samba (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
tags: | added: trusty |
Changed in samba (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-14.04.2 |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Triaged |
tags: | added: dist-upgrade packaging |
Changed in samba (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Invalid |
Confirmed; the timings of the releases make sense that this is a problem for precise->trusty upgraders.