On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 06:05:45AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> tags 297923 patch
> thanks

> In this bug Martin F. Krafft mentions that different versions of
> libpam-smbpass and samba-common on the same system lead to a big mess.

> Martin's suggestion in this bug report seems fair to me. I hesitated
> between the following two solutions for libpam-smbpass:

> -Add "samba-common (= ${Source-Version})" to Depends
> -Add "samba-common (<<${Source-Version})  to Conflicts

> I finally choosed the latter, which seems less invasive to me and
> avoids enforcing users of libpmam-smbpass to install samba-common.

libpam-smbpass should have a dependency on samba-common anyway, because it
uses /etc/samba/smb.conf as its config file and this is owned by
samba-common.  << conflicts are also *very* disruptive on major upgrades. 
We should do this using the first option instead.

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