Package: samba-libs Version: 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u1 Attempting to upgrade samba-libs in jessie unexpectedly requires me to install the samba package. See below:
root@myserver:~# apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libgssapi3-heimdal libheimntlm0-heimdal Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libhdb9-heimdal python-dnspython python-ldb python-ntdb python-samba python-tdb samba samba-common samba-common-bin samba-dsdb-modules tdb-tools The following packages will be upgraded: libldb1 libsmbclient libtalloc2 libtdb1 libtevent0 libwbclient0 python-talloc samba-libs 8 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 9,040 kB of archives. After this operation, 23.9 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. I do not want samba on this server, and it was not previously required for samba-libs. Please remove the dependency on samba.