[Pkg-samba-maint] Help needed with Samba 4.0.5 package

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 08:10 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Andrew Bartlett (abartlet at samba.org):
> 
> > When I install the built package (which now include even more of the
> > original samba package), I get:
> > 
> > Setting up samba (2:4.0.5+dfsg1-2.0) ...
> > Generating /etc/default/samba...
> > sed: -e expression #1, char 59: unknown option to `s'
> > dpkg: error processing samba (--install):
> >  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
> > status 1
> 
> 
> All this is related to the debconf option to decide about running
> daemons as standalone or from inetd. Is it even still supported
> upstream to run samba daemons from inetd?
> 
> IIRC, we talked about dropping this even in Samba3 packages, because I
> think there are very very very few people running samba from inetd
> now. I even wonder if this is still supported..:-)

It is still officially supported, but increasingly untested and unwise
as we need more and more long-term services, which we start at startup
(such as to handle spoolss properly). 

If you can drop it then that will make it easier for us to drop
upstream.

> What is the result of running the attached script?

Use of uninitialized value $action in string eq
at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 27.
10 samba/run_mode doesn't exist



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