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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