python2.4-samba shared libs too big?

[Andrew Bennetts]

Something fishy is going on with the samba Python bindings:

$ ls -1shd `dpkg -L python2.4-samba | grep .so$`
1.5M /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/samba/lsa.so
1.5M /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/samba/samr.so
1.5M /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/samba/smb.so
1.5M /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/samba/spoolss.so
1.5M /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/samba/srvsvc.so
 16K /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/samba/tdbpack.so
1.5M /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/samba/tdb.so
1.5M /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/samba/winbind.so
1.5M /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/samba/winreg.so

I strongly suspect that these .so files don't all need to be 1.5M.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Presumably they're all linking with a private, static library within the samba
source tree. There isn't much to be done about this other than converting it
into a proper shared library, which isn't something we're likely to do without
upstream's lead

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and help improve Ubuntu.

The python samba bindings are deprecated upstream, and have been dropped from the Ubuntu packaging as of gutsy. This bug is therefore no longer an issue.