[Samba] Debian Bullseye samba 4.16.1 online (amd64/arm64/armhf/i386)

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2022-05-28 at 22:48 +0300, Michael Tokarev via samba wrote:
> [Replying to a somewhat old email...]
> 
> 13.05.2022 12:42, L. van Belle wrote:
> ...
> > The other part.  Gnome tracker support
> > https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Spotlight_with_Gnome_Tracker_Backend
> > 
> > in the beginning, when trackers was added, we needed.
> >          libtracker-sparql-2.0-dev and libtracker-miner-2.0-dev
> > 
> > This is one I discussed with Matteu, and he decided that it was
> > pulling in
> > to much extra depends.
> > so it was desiced not to enable it. Meanwhile, I did have people
> > asking for it.
> > So, I enabled it some time ago in my repo packages.
> > 
> > I reviewed above wiki page again, and noticed libtracker-miner was
> > dropped.
> > I do see spotlight enabled, in current builds, only these don't
> > support
> > Gnome backends.
> 
> It was https://bugs.debian.org/941654 - someone said it is too much
> to have
> glib dependencies on a headless server. I don't see it is a big issue
> though.
> 
> BTW, it is usr/libexec/samba/rpcd_mdssvc binary which is being linked
> with
> libtracker-sparql, so it isn't an optional plugin.

Couldn't that be put into a sub-package if this is a big drama?  A
quick 'git grep' seems to suggest this is designed to be optional. 

Perhaps check with samba-technical about the design?

Andrew Bartlett

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