reopen 308812 tags 308812 sarge thanks > Both #308812 and #347585 still affect sarge, which is currently our > official release. Under normal circumstances I don't usually care about > bugs being closed if they are in stable but fixed in unstable (and > possibly testing). However, both of these simply make the software plain > unusable.
Yes. Point taken. And action done. > > Well, my rationale is that #347585 is not about a missing dependency > > but about a missing directory, which only affects those people who use > > winbind without samba. > > Which is a perfectly fine use case. > Winbind is about authenticating (anything) to AD. As I wanted pppd on a > VPN gateway to do so, I had no need for samba on this machine, at all. If > I want squid to use NTLM auth, I have no need for samba. If I want cyrus > to use NTLM auth, ... You can guess it. Yep. That's a fair point and I understand it. But, again, I think that this doesn't deserve a RC bug. Apparently Steve disagrees but anyway this hasn't much importance except by showing that judgements about bug severities may vary. And given that Steve is the release manager, he would anyway have the last word on such issue...:-) > Additionally, while the ntlm_auth binary complains when it is affected by > #308812, winbind just dies with no explanation whatsoever because of > #347585 - even when using debuglevel up to 2048. It took an invocation > with strace to find it out why. Wow. Sounds like something we could report upstream. > > Anyway, this is arguing: fixing this give us an opportunity to upload > > a new version which I was already considering given that the former > > one has reached testing. > > Ack :) Will do ASAP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
