[Bug 1412909] [NEW] Please raise Suggests for lib{pam, nss}-winbind to Recommends in trusty

[Geoffrey Thomas]

Public bug reported:

The Debian packaging of Samba demoted the Recommends relationships to
libpam-winbind and libnss-winbind to Suggests after one Debian release:

samba (2:3.6.15-1) unstable; urgency=high

  * Team upload.
  * New upstream bugfix release. Closes: #707042
  * Update VCS URL's for new git repo.
  * The recommends for the separate libnss-winbind and libpam-winbind
    packages needed for the upgrade of winbind from squeeze to wheezy are no
    longer needed. Lowering them to suggests.
    Closes: #706434, #674853

 -- Ivo De Decker <ivo.dedecker at ugent.be>  Thu, 09 May 2013 11:55:03
+0200

Unfortunately this isn't enough for the Ubuntu LTS cycle. libpam-winbind
was a separate package in Precise, but libnss-winbind wasn't, and the
release-upgrader therefore doesn't know to install it. Can those
relationships be restored to Recommends in trusty-updates? (This delta
doesn't need to be kept past Trusty.)

We upgraded a server from Precise to Trusty this weekend and it was
really confusing to track down why nobody could log in any more. I know
it's been a while since the Trusty release, but given that Precise is
around for two more years, I strongly suspect we're not the last people
to upgrade a winbind-using Precise machine, and configuring samba
correctly is confusing enough as it is. :)

** Affects: samba (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Please raise Suggests for lib{pam,nss}-winbind to Recommends in trusty

Status in samba package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The Debian packaging of Samba demoted the Recommends relationships to
  libpam-winbind and libnss-winbind to Suggests after one Debian
  release:

  samba (2:3.6.15-1) unstable; urgency=high

    * Team upload.
    * New upstream bugfix release. Closes: #707042
    * Update VCS URL's for new git repo.
    * The recommends for the separate libnss-winbind and libpam-winbind
      packages needed for the upgrade of winbind from squeeze to wheezy are no
      longer needed. Lowering them to suggests.
      Closes: #706434, #674853

   -- Ivo De Decker <ivo.dedecker at ugent.be>  Thu, 09 May 2013 11:55:03
  +0200

  Unfortunately this isn't enough for the Ubuntu LTS cycle. libpam-
  winbind was a separate package in Precise, but libnss-winbind wasn't,
  and the release-upgrader therefore doesn't know to install it. Can
  those relationships be restored to Recommends in trusty-updates? (This
  delta doesn't need to be kept past Trusty.)

  We upgraded a server from Precise to Trusty this weekend and it was
  really confusing to track down why nobody could log in any more. I
  know it's been a while since the Trusty release, but given that
  Precise is around for two more years, I strongly suspect we're not the
  last people to upgrade a winbind-using Precise machine, and
  configuring samba correctly is confusing enough as it is. :)

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