[Pkg-samba-maint] Merging some Ubuntu changes...ask the samba-common/dhcp at which priority ?

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:13:24PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> In short, the Debian packages raises the priority of the
> samba-common/dhcp to *high* when the machine has the dhcp3-client
> installed.

> This nearly enfrces the question on all suers as "high" priority
> questions are shown on default installs.

> IMHO, this question is no *that* important and it hasa sane
> default. So I don't really see a reason to make it pop up to every
> user.

> Moreover, as written in samba-common.config, the way to detect that a
> DHCP client is installed is rather clumsy and even does not guarantee
> that the machine really uses DHCP. As a consequence, the question may
> seem really weird to some users.

> I personnally vite to drop that part of code and leave the question at
> priority medium.

> Objections?

Yes, I object.  The default is (and AFAICS is supposed to be, under policy)
to not make this change to the samba config, but despite being the
policy-compliant default I do not consider it a *sane* default, since I
believe most users who get their IP from DHCP will also want to grab netbios
settings from DHCP -- and that these users are the less likely to be running
debconf at medium priority.  So we can't set this up for users unless we
show them the question, and they won't see the question unless we ask it at
high.

I would be interested to hear why Ubuntu made the decision to suppress this
question; I can understand wanting to reduce the number of questions asked
of users (I would also prefer that users not have to answer this question),
but in this case I think it's justified because of the integration benefits.

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