I did something similar in order to preserve the dhcp3.
rm /etc/dhcp3 mkdir /etc/dhcp3 ln -s /etc/dhcp/* /etc/dhcp3/
Then I could: apt-get update apt-get install samba samba-common !
Still thing this is a bug in samba / samba-common because I had to specify it explicitly.
I did something similar in order to preserve the dhcp3.
rm /etc/dhcp3
mkdir /etc/dhcp3
ln -s /etc/dhcp/* /etc/dhcp3/
Then I could:
apt-get update
apt-get install samba samba-common !
Still thing this is a bug in samba / samba-common because I had to specify it explicitly.