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

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 18:31 -0800, Christian Kujau wrote:
> 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].
The problem is not the maintainance overhead, but rather that we'd like
it to be possible for people to install Samba 4 while e.g. libsmbclient
(which GNOME and KDE depend on, and which depends on samba-common) is installed.

> > 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.
As I mentioned in my previous reply we could rename samba-common-bin to
samba3-common and samba4-common-bin to samba4-common while keeping
samba-common around. That would make the names a bit clearer to users
but wouldn't really change the situation overall. 

Cheers,

Jelmer
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