On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 09:55:07AM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > On Fri, 2016-04-15 at 21:24 +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 08:15:11PM +0200, Benjamin Bouvier wrote: > > > Package: samba-libs > > > Version: 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u2 > > > Severity: important > > > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > > > * What led up to the situation? > > > The samba-libs package renders greyhole (redundant storage pooling > > > using Samba) nonfunctional. > > > > > > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > > > ineffective)? > > > > > > The readelf command shows a dependency of the greyhole VFS module > > > upon libsamba-debug-samba4.so, which is not provided by the samba > > > -libs package. By comparison, it is provided in the stretch > > > (testing) package, and in corresponding RPMs for other linux > > > distros. > > > > This is a bug in greyhole, it sould not depend on non-public APIs. > > This is a bit more of a grey area (pardon the pun) for VFS modules > (given they build in-tree), but I do expect the followup bug of 'the > VFS interface changed' shortly.
> Packaging VFS modules is similar to packaging ldb modules in > complexity, sadly, and we never had a good out-of-tree build process > for those. greyhole is not in Debian. The current situation (where we can't build out-of-tree VFS modules) is exactly why there are packages of vfs modules in the archive. Cheers, Jelmer
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