[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#591752: Bug#591752: samba-common: please change the name resolv order

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Fabian Greffrath (fabian at greffrath.com):

> I do not know upstream's opinion on this, i.e. if this would be considered a
> Debian-specific deviation, but at least in the smb.conf(5) manpage I found my
> proposed name resolv order among the examples. However, please consider
> changing this setting for the sake of users with heterogenous networks and
> stupid ISPs. ;)


I'm afraid we won't. About two years ago, we adopted a policy where we
avoid deviations form upstream default as much as possible. That
helped a lot in having a better interaction with upstream (where
nobody can really tell 'eh, these folks at Debian changed default
settings we madethis way because we have good reasons for'....

In that specific case of network resolution and browsing, I think that
there are not valid reasons to change the default even if that change
is needeed for your specific configuration.

If you think that the default should be changed, I suggest talking to
upstream.

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