[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#486695: samba-doc: missing "Using Samba" book

Andrew Schulman andrex at alumni.utexas.net
Wed Jun 18 09:12:37 UTC 2008


> Within the samba-doc package, we distribute everything that upstream
> gives us in the htmldocs subdirectory.  This manual isn't in samba-doc
> 2:3.0.30-2 because it's been dropped upstream; I don't know why, the
> upstream changelog (WHATSNEW.txt) also doesn't provide much explanation.

Would it not be possible to add the book back in?  Of course people can go 
and find it at samba.org, but if it was good enough to include before, it 
should still be.

OTOH the 3rd ed. is out and maybe that's why they removed the 2nd ed. from 
the tarball.

Otherwise, I think it would be better to adjust the link 
in /usr/share/doc/samba-docs/htmldocs/index.html to point to 
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/toc.html, rather than removing 
it altogether.

Thanks,
Andrew.





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