On 04/04/2015 08:47 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 08:03:19PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: >> On 04/04/2015 07:40 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: >>> On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 07:31:59PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: >>>> Package: src:samba >>>> Version: 2:4.1.13+dfsg-4 >>>> >>>> please build bindings for Python3 and let samba-common-bin use them >>> >>> There are no Python3 bindings for Samba. Porting will be a large effort, >>> and as >>> upstream we don't want to maintain support for two Python versions. >>> >>> What do you need the Python3 bindings for? Perhaps there are alternatives. >> >> I was looking what is keeping Python2 on the Ubuntu desktop. For the samba >> bindings this is system-config-printer depending on gvfs-backends, depending >> on >> samba-libs. > > I think getting rid of the Python dependency in samba-libs is a much > easier to achieve goal here. > > AFAICT The only reason that samba-libs depends on python is because > libsamba-net can do provisioning of a local DC (requires the 'samba' > package to be installed) by invoking the provision script using Python. > > So if we could move that functionality out to a separate library that > is not included with samba-libs, we could drop the dependency on > python2 in samba-libs.
right, that would get rid off python libs and python-talloc. However there is another path in that nautilus-share depends on samba-common | samba-common-bin, which depend on python-samba. and $ reverse-depends nautilus-share Reverse-Recommends ================== * ubuntu-desktop * ubuntu-gnome-desktop * ubuntukylin-desktop Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
