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

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:48:13AM +0200, Ivo De Decker wrote:
> > From here, I think we need to address the three TODO commits, sort out
> > the debconf mess and the upgrade/prerm/postint scripts.  I would very
> > much appreciate assistance with that.

> I fixed the debconf stuff for now, by moving the templates to the right names
> for the current packages. This version builds and installs fine. Just running
> the 'samba' package (with smbd and nmbd) is fine. The samba-ad-dc package
> installs fine now too, but I didn't get it to work (probably because I never
> tried running the samba4 ad dc before).

> We should think about the naming of the packages and the init scripts. The
> 'samba' package doesn't ship the 'samba' daemon, and the 'samba' init script
> doesn't control this daemon. Looking at the history, this is expected, but it
> gets confusing very quickly.

Oops.  Cf. my latest post about splitting the init scripts. ;)

Since there will now be a 'samba' daemon in addition to the classic 'smbd'
and 'nmbd' daemons, what do you think of switching this all in one go, and
making /etc/init.d/samba control /usr/sbin/samba while the other daemons
each get their own init script?

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