Here is some of the history of the keyutils dependency in the cifs-utils
package:
- first added in response to debian bug #504690 in 2011:
cifs-utils (2:4.9-1) unstable; urgency=low
[ Luk Claes ]
* Add Recommends to keyutils so following DFS links works out of the
box. Closes: #504690.
* Install README. Closes: #603094.
* Add --without-libcap to dh_auto_configure. Closes: #615211.
[ Steve Langasek ]
* New upstream release. Closes: #600788.
- mount.cifs: use original device name as-is for mtab.
Closes: #586009, #583508, #589218.
-- Luk Claes <l...@debian.org> Sat, 02 Apr 2011 17:10:35 +020
Then downgraded to "suggests" in 2016, in response to debian bug #822841:
cifs-utils (2:6.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium
* Team upload
* Move keyutils and winbind from Recommends to Suggests (Closes: #822841)
* Spring cleaning:
- Standards-Version: 3.9.8 (no change)
- Use secure Vcs-* URIs
- Remove cifs-utils.NEWS as mount.cifs is setuid again since 2:5.4-2
(pre-wheezy)
- Updated gbp.conf (Old style config section)
- Renamed cifs-utils.lintian to cifs-utils.lintian-overrides
- Updated copyright file
-- Mathieu Parent <sath...@debian.org> Tue, 03 May 2016 12:16:18 +0200
Now, mount.cifs works just fine without cifs-utils installed, for many
scenarios. Maybe even most of the time? The main problem seems to be to
identify the cases when keyutils is needed, and clearly communicate that.
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #967972
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=967972
** Also affects: cifs-utils (Debian) via
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=967972
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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