Comment 0 for bug 1412909

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. :)