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

[Christian Kujau]

Jelmer Vernooij wrote on 2011-02-25 17:47 :
> 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.

There are currently 15 files in samba-common, 4 of them in /etc, 5 in
/usr/share/samba, the rest in /usr/share/doc/samba-common - I wonder how
much of it is really shared. How about creating a samba3-common and
samba4-common? With ~15 files in each, this doesn't sound too much of a
maintenance overhead[0].

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

When I realized, smb.conf.5 was not there, I quickly installed
"samba-doc", thinking the manpage *must* be in the -doc package then.
Only including the manpage in either "samba" or "smbclient" or the like
doesn't sound right either.

So I (humbly) propose to kick samba-common-bin and create samba3-common
and samba4-common instead.

Thanks,
Christian.

[0] ...says the one not maintaining a single package. But I'm willing
    to help out, if there's a maintenance bottleneck!