[Pkg-samba-maint] Heads up: we need something to warn users about passdb backend change in 3.4

[Luk Claes]

Christian Perrier wrote:
> 3.4.0 will change the default passdb backend from smbpasswd to tdbsam.
> 
> That will likely break existing setups where the passdb backend is not
> explicitely set in smb.conf.
> 
> I think this is a quite good use of a debconf note with the following
> way to do it:
> 
> if "upgrade from < 3.4 to >=3.4"
>   if "not found 'passdb backend' in smb.conf"
>     display note
>   fi
> fi
> 
> One should not, though, that our default smb.conf already explicitely
> sets "passdb backend".

I would mention it in the NEWS file in the case that lenny already has
passdb as backend in the configuration we ship.

Cheers

Luk