[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#675906: samba: smb.conf needs a conf.d folder

[Chris Capon]

Package: samba
Version: 2:3.6.5-3
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,
Each time a new version of Samba is release, we get a system prompt asking about overwriting our customized smb.conf
with the package maintainers new version.  In general, the package maintainer's version is what we want, but to add additional
shares requires customization.

Rather than having to hand maintain the customizations each release, it would be nice if the packaged smb.conf automatically
included add-ons from a conf.d folder or some similar process.  This way we could add additional shares while still using
the new smb.conf which comes with each release.  Thus, no more prompts.

Much thanks,
Chris.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages samba depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu2
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.43
ii  libacl1                2.2.51-7
ii  libattr1               1:2.4.46-7
ii  libc6                  2.13-32
ii  libcap2                1:2.22-1
ii  libcomerr2             1.42.2-2
ii  libcups2               1.5.3-1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.10.1+dfsg-1
ii  libk5crypto3           1.10.1+dfsg-1
ii  libkrb5-3              1.10.1+dfsg-1
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.28-1.1
ii  libpam-modules         1.1.3-7.1
ii  libpam-runtime         1.1.3-7.1
ii  libpam0g               1.1.3-7.1
ii  libpopt0               1.16-4
ii  libtalloc2             2.0.7+git20120207-1
ii  libtdb1                1.2.10-2
ii  libwbclient0           2:3.6.5-3
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian4
ii  procps                 1:3.3.2-3
ii  samba-common           2:3.6.5-3
ii  update-inetd           4.42
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.7.dfsg-11

Versions of packages samba recommends:
pn  logrotate  3.8.1-4
pn  tdb-tools  <none>

Versions of packages samba suggests:
pn  ctdb                                <none>
pn  inetutils-inetd [inet-superserver]  2:1.9-1
pn  ldb-tools                           <none>
pn  smbldap-tools                       <none>

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