[Samba] classifying samba componens and sorting into debian binary packages

[Michael Tokarev]

26.05.2024 06:53, Douglas Bagnall пишет:
> On 26/05/24 03:00, Michael Tokarev via samba wrote:
>> There's also /usr/sbin/samba_kcc in there, - should go either to samba-ad-client
>> or samba-ad-dc, I can't understand which one.
> 
> samba-ad-dc. It is called by the server.

Are samba_dnsupdate & samba_spnupdate also ad-dc-only?

I see these are called from the server (dnsupdate_task_init() in
source4/dsdb/dns/dns_update.c), but is also mentioned in, eg,
python/samba/join.py, - though there it isn't used directly.

So it looks like these should be part of samba-ad-dc too.

With that in mind, I don't see value in having samba-ad-client
package, which becomes a package with just 2 python scripts
(samba-tool and samba-gpupdate), which can live in samba-common-bin.
Yes it needs python3-samba, but it's trivial to make it optional.

>>> BTW, do we really need samba_downgrade_db these days?  Changing format to the
>>> one used by samba 4.7, srsly?  I'd just remove this one :)
> 
> Yeah, maybe. It's there in case you just upgraded from 4.7 and found something went wrong, but I don't know if that has ever happened in practice.

Well, if it's part of samba-ad-dc which depends on all the python
stuff anyway, it's not a big deal at all.

Thanks,

/mjt
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