Public bug reported: Christian alerted me that the monitoring[1] we have on certain installation profiles showed a small jump.
After some digging, he concluded correctly that it's due to a new Recommends that bin:samba has on bin:samba-ad-dc, added in debian[2]. I raised this in debian bug #1099755[3], and it has a good summary of the reasons. My counter argument[4] for Ubuntu is also there, and I reproduce it here: """ I think I will remove that Recommends from Ubuntu. The way it is now, that Recommends means that every single fresh installation of samba (or upgrade) will get samba-ad-dc installed, even if it's a simple standalone file server. That means winbind running, and libnss-winbind/libpam-winbind configured in the pam stack and /etc/nsswitch.conf. In the case of Ubuntu, I believe we can more reasonably expect to have samba-ad-dc installed if it's meant to be an AD/DC server, because that's what our docs explain. In the worst case, since we have a release upgrade tool (do-release-upgrade), we can add code to it to manually select samba-ad-dc in release upgrades if we detect that the current system is an AD/DC server that didn't have samba-ad-dc installed. """ 1. https://cloud.kpi-ps5.canonical.com/d/ilYWcb-Vk/ubuntu-server-daily-metrics?orgId=1 2. https://salsa.debian.org/samba-team/samba/-/commit/4f3075fecab69ecef1611fd397be026aed0394b2 3. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1099755 4. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1099755#25 ** Affects: samba (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2101838 Title: Extra dependency on samba-ad-dc not needed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/2101838/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
