Fails under Ubuntu 20.04 due to missing packages

[mattj65817]

I'm relatively new to Ansible, so bear with me if I'm missing some critical details that make my suggestion unworkable, BUT...

Attempting to use this role to manage Samba on an Ubuntu 20.04 server, I receive this error:

TASK [geerlingguy.samba : Ensure Samba-related packages are installed (Debian).] ***************************************
failed: [clus0-node0-apct11.local] (item=['samba', 'samba-common', 'python-glade2', 'system-config-samba']) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item", "changed": false, "item": ["samba", "samba-common", "python-glade2", "system-config-samba"], "msg": "No package matching 'python-glade2' is available"}

Further, if the reference to python-glade2 is removed from the task, a subsequent attempt also fails due to removal of the system-config-samba package. So, my educated guess is that these two packages have been removed from Ubuntu 20.04 completely.

The task works fine if I remove these packages and update the task to only install the samba package, allowing apt to resolve any other dependencies. I don't know whether the absence of python-glade2 will cause problems further down the line, however, so this may not be a workable solution to the problem?

[geerlingguy]

I haven't yet tested this role under 20.04, but my guess/hope is that samba doesn't require these packages anymore in 20.04. See related issue in Ubuntu's tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pygtk/+bug/1876276

[mattj65817]

@geerlingguy yep, that's the issue. It sure seems to work fine if you remove them from the task, for what that's worth.

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