Package: cifs-utils Version: 2:6.8-1 Severity: wishlist User: [email protected] Usertags: debian-edu
Hi, while installing cifs-utils (testing Debian Edu Buster), I noticed that a lot of other packages are pulled in (like samba-common and samba-common-bin). IMO this isn't needed. Quoting https://www.kernel.org/doc/readme/Documentation-filesystems-cifs-README: "Note that the cifs vfs, unlike the smbfs vfs, does not read the smb.conf on the client system (the few optional settings are passed in on mount via -o parameters instead)." So unlike the previous smbfs, cifs does not rely on Samba (like smb.conf and tools shipped with samba-common-bin). Please consider to lower the Depends on samba-common to a Suggests. This might also prevent errors; see e.g. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900908 Wolfgang
