On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 10:10:14PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > 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
What does it need that dependency for? I would imagine it just uses libsmbclient. Cheers, Jelmer -- Jelmer Vernooij <jel...@debian.org> Debian Developer https://jelmer.uk/
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