[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#591062: Bug#591062: samba: smb.conf man page missing

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 16:57 -0800, Christian Kujau wrote:
> > There is indeed an smb.conf manpage. It is provided by the
> > samba-common-bin package, which is recommended by samba-common.
> 
> Why is the manpage in a -bin package? Because the manpange is compressed 
> via gzip, and therefore "binary"? I would expect the manpage to be 
> installed when either smbd or smbclient are installed, or any other tools 
> making use of the manpage. Since most samba-packages depend on 
> samba-common, I'd love to see the manpage included there. The changelog 
> mentions #524661, but not that the manpages were moved as well.
> 
> To be honest, it was quite a ride to finally find this bugreport only to 
> see that there really *is* a manpage, but in a (seemlingly unrelated) 
> package. 
> 
> Please reconsider and make smb.conf.5 a part of samba-common again.
samba-common is shared between samba 3 and samba 4. samba-common-bin is
specific to Samba 3, and the smb.conf man page is specific to Samba 3.
When installing just Samba 4, we should not be installing the Samba 3
smb.conf file.

Perhaps we should look at renaming samba-common-bin and
samba4-common-bin to something that expresses the situation better.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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