[Pkg-samba-maint] What to do with the empty samba-doc package?

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Andrew Bartlett (abartlet at samba.org):
> On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 13:09 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > I've been further testing, doing an upgrade on the netgear NAS my work
> > is actually for (the reason I got into this in the first place).
> > 
> > One of the issues that came up is that things conflict with the old
> > samba-doc.  
> > 
> > Shouldn't we put a Conflicts: and Replaces: on the other packages where
> > the docs have moved to, to cause the old samba-doc to go away?
> 
> I realised it isn't actually empty, just empty of manpages.  I've used a
> version-ed Conflicts and Replaces and that seems to be doing the right
> thing.


Well, the samba-doc package indeed had no manpages, but only the now
removed documents (HOWTO, Developer's Guide and Samba3 by Example) and
examples.

So, the best is indeed to make it go away from the new source package
and have one of our packages (probably samba-common-bin?) to make it
go away with Conflicts/Breaks.

However, we should first check if there are reverse dependencies in
order to decide about either providing a transition package...or just
make the package disappear.

(notice: this has been written quickly, while being VAC and not really
focused on Debian stuff, so you guys probably need a bit more
discussion, here..:-))

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