[pkg-bacula-devel] Bug#1052049: bacula-director: Please amend bacula-dir.conf to include subfiles

[Niels S. Richthof]

Package: bacula-director
Version: 9.6.7-7
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

The bacula director configuration file can get very big and messy, especially 
when backing up many clients.

bacula-director supports the inclusion of subfiles in configuration files,
as documented here:
https://www.bacula.org/9.6.x-manuals/en/main/Customizing_Configuration_F.html#SECTION002023000000000000000
(This is also the case in all newer upstream versions.)

Therefore, could you please, in keeping with the way other Debian packages are 
doing this:

1. Create a new (empty) directory "/etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf.d/"
2. Add the following snipped to "/etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf":

   # Include subfiles associated with configuration of clients.
   # They define the bulk of the Clients, Jobs, and FileSets.
   # Remember to "reload" the Director after adding a client file.
   #
   @|"sh -c 'for f in /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf.d/*.conf ; do echo @${f} ; done'"


Thank you
Niels

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-23-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages bacula-director depends on:
ii  bacula-common          9.6.7-7
ii  bacula-director-mysql  9.6.7-7
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]      8.1.2-0.20220412cvs-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.65.2
ii  libc6                  2.36-9+deb12u1
ii  libstdc++6             12.2.0-14
ii  sysvinit-utils         3.06-4
ii  ucf                    3.0043+nmu1

bacula-director recommends no packages.

Versions of packages bacula-director suggests:
pn  bacula-doc  <none>

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