The recent Samba security updates are uninstallable on my Jessie system. The problem appears to be with python-samba. It depends on python-talloc >= 2.1.6, but Jessie has version 2.1.2. As a result, the packages cannot be updated.
Package: python-samba Source: samba Version: 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7 Installed-Size: 7,250 kB Maintainer: Debian Samba Maintainers <pkg-samba-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Provides: python2.7-samba Depends: python-ldb (>= 1.1.2~), python-tdb, python-ntdb, python-crypto, python (<< 2.8), python (>= 2.7), python:any (>= 2.6.6-7~), libattr1 (>= 1:2.4.46-8), libbsd0 (>= 0.0), libc6 (>= 2.14), libldb1 (>= 0.9.21), libpython2.7 (>= 2.7), libtalloc2 (>= 2.0.4~git20101213), libtevent0 (>= 0.9.16), python-talloc (>= 2.1.6), samba-libs (= 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7) Attempting to upgrade would result in several Samba packages being held back or removed: 12 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them. root@storage-server:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt list --upgradable Listing... Done ctdb/oldstable 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7 amd64 [upgradable from: 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u6] libsmbclient/oldstable 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7 amd64 [upgradable from: 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u6] libwbclient0/oldstable 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7 amd64 [upgradable from: 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u6] python-samba/oldstable 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7 amd64 [upgradable from: 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u6] samba/oldstable 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7 amd64 [upgradable from: 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u6] samba-common/oldstable 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7 all [upgradable from: 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u6] samba-common-bin/oldstable 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7 amd64 [upgradable from: 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u6] samba-dbg/oldstable 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7 amd64 [upgradable from: 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u6] samba-doc/oldstable 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7 all [upgradable from: 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u6] samba-dsdb-modules/oldstable 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7 amd64 [upgradable from: 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u6] samba-libs/oldstable 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7 amd64 [upgradable from: 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u6] samba-vfs-modules/oldstable 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7 amd64 [upgradable from: 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u6] root@storage-server:~# apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: linux-image-4.9.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it. Done The following packages have been kept back: ctdb samba samba-common samba-dbg samba-dsdb-modules The following packages will be upgraded: libwbclient0 samba-doc 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Need to get 441 kB of archives. After this operation, 51.2 kB disk space will be freed. root@storage-server:~# apt full-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: attr ctdb linux-image-4.9.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 samba-dsdb-modules Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. Done The following packages will be REMOVED: samba samba-common-bin samba-dbg The following packages have been kept back: ctdb samba-dsdb-modules The following packages will be upgraded: libwbclient0 samba-common samba-doc 3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 705 kB of archives. After this operation, 49.8 MB disk space will be freed.
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