Comment 1 for bug 1440381

as it is stated in the http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781913 it would be enough to move the libsamba-net out of the samba-libs into a separate package libsamba-net. Then samba-libs would not dependent on python at all. In turn gvfs-backends would be free of python too which would make it possible to have python2 free desktop starting with the 16.04 lts.
The dependency to that new libsamba-net package should be added in the samba package.