Package: samba Version: 2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: hibbsncc1...@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer, I noticed that the group policy tool (/usr/sbin/samba-gpupdate) in Debian is stored in the samba package. This seems to be a poor choice of placement as group policies are expected to be applied on all domain joined hosts, and you can join a domain with just the samba-common-bin and sssd-ad packages, but the samba package is only installed if the SMB file server component is required. It doesn't seem right to mandate installation of the SMB file server package, most of which will go unused, just to have the group policy tool available. Would it be possible to move the group policy tool to the more generic samba- common-bin package? Or perhaps a package of it's own if the samba-common-bin package is inappropriate? -- Package-specific info: * /etc/samba/smb.conf present, but not attached * /var/lib/samba/dhcp.conf present, but not attached -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (400, 'oldstable-updates'), (400, 'oldstable-security'), (400, 'unstable'), (400, 'stable'), (100, 'bookworm-fasttrack'), (100, 'bookworm-backports-staging') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, arm64 Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-18-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages samba depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.65.2 ii libbsd0 0.11.7-2 ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u4 ii libcups2 2.4.2-3+deb12u5 ii libgnutls30 3.7.9-2+deb12u2 ii libldap-2.5-0 2.5.13+dfsg-5 ii libldb2 2:2.6.2+samba4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1 ii libpam-modules 1.5.2-6+deb12u1 ii libpam-runtime 1.5.2-6+deb12u1 ii libpopt0 1.19+dfsg-1 ii libtalloc2 2.4.0-f2 ii libtasn1-6 4.19.0-2 ii libtdb1 1.4.8-2 ii libtevent0 0.14.1-1 ii passwd 1:4.13+dfsg1-1+b1 ii procps 2:4.0.2-3 ii python3 3.11.2-1+b1 ii python3-dnspython 2.3.0-1 ii python3-samba 2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1 ii samba-common 2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1 ii samba-common-bin 2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1 ii samba-libs 2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1 ii tdb-tools 1.4.8-2 Versions of packages samba recommends: ii attr 1:2.5.1-4 ii logrotate 3.21.0-1 ii python3-markdown 3.4.1-2 ii samba-ad-provision 2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1 ii samba-dsdb-modules 2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1 ii samba-vfs-modules 2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1 Versions of packages samba suggests: pn bind9 <none> pn bind9utils <none> ii chrony 4.3-2+deb12u1 pn ctdb <none> pn ldb-tools <none> pn ufw <none> pn winbind <none> -- no debconf information
