[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#532856: Bug#532856: Bug#532856: closed by Mathieu Parent <math.parent at gmail.com> (Closing " umask settings overridden by Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) clients")

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sun, 2018-07-01 at 23:25 +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 11:04:27AM +0200, Mathieu Parent wrote:
> > The "create mask" doesn't impact the chmod UNIX extension.
> 
> Exactly, and likewise for "force create mode". How does that make sense? If
> the option is called "do X", and fails to do X in some opaque circumstances,
> how is that not a bug? At the very very least, it needs to be explained
> somewhere. Last I checked, there was nothing in the smb.conf manual to
> indicate that any of this would happen. The existence of a chmod extension
> isn't even mentioned. (As I said before.)
> 
> On a more general note, I would recommend triaging user bug reports when you
> are available to actually try to understand what users are saying. Ignoring
> information provided and repeating the same question all over again is
> unhelpful at best.

Honestly, this really isn't the place.

While this goes against general Debian practice, these bug reports are
really not a good place to discuss general issues with Samba.  

There are good, upstream e-mail lists with a much larger peer user base
and monitored by full-time Samba developers.  Likewise the upstream
bugzilla tracks issues for the project as a whole, and is actively
reponded to (mostly) by Samba Team members.

Finally, the Debian Samba project has a fairly strict policy of not
carrying local patches, so any change has to go via the above in any
case. 

Sorry,

Andrew Bartlett

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