Your message dated Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:32:14 +0000
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and subject line Bug#496206: fixed in samba 2:3.3.0~rc2-2
has caused the Debian Bug report #496206,
regarding smbfs: package description overhaul
to be marked as done.
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Package: smbfs
Version: 2:3.2.1-1
Severity: minor
This is part of a set of related bugreports on the packages in the
Samba suite; I've already reported many of these issues (with some
suggested fixes) as a single bugreport on samba4 (see #486370), but
since that approach is a dud I'm trying the alternative of splitting
them up and targetting individual packages.
Current package description:
# Description: mount and umount commands for the smbfs (for kernels >= than
2.2.x)
# Smbfs is a filesystem which understands the SMB/CIFS protocol.
# This is the protocol Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT or
# LAN Manager use to talk to each other. It was inspired by
# samba, the program by Andrew Tridgell that turns any unix
# site into a file server for DOS or Windows clients.
# .
# If you want to use command-line utilities like smbclient, smbtar
# and/or smbspool you just need to install the smbclient package.
Problems shared with other packages in the set:
* Samba is all about OS interoperability, so keep the OS names
straight. It's not for "any unix site", it's specifically
for Linux, and not even Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, in this case!
Likewise, "Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT or LAN
Manager" is all very dated and inaccurate - SMB/CIFS works
for Windows XP or (smbclient on) OpenVMS, too! And why "or"
instead of "and"?
* and the wishlist item: WIBNI all the packages in the suite had
consistently styled short descriptions.
Problems unique to this package:
* oh, come on, Linux 2.2.x came out while Hamm was Stable!
* a trivial point: smbclient refers to "command line utilities",
smbfs says "command-line". Standardise on the two-word form
(and similarly "file system").
* the long description is a description of the file system (provided
until recently by a kernel module), not of the contents of
this package.
* the description of the smbfs file system may be taken from the
kernel docs, but it's not particularly good; for a start it
doesn't mention that smbfs is a network file system!
* why concentrate on the smbfs file system here when the smbfs
package contains not just the deprecated mount.smbfs but
also mount.cifs?
Now that smbfs.ko is being removed from the kernel tree, this
package's name has gone from being merely unfortunate to being
seriously misleading. If you can't rename the package to, say,
"smbmount", you can at least update its package description.
Suggested replacement text:
| Description: Samba file system utilities
| The Samba software suite implements the SMB/CIFS protocol, providing
| cross-platform support for Windows-style network shares.
| .
| This package provides mount and umount utilities for the cifs and
| (deprecated) smbfs network file systems. Other command line utilities such
| as smbclient, smbtar and smbspool are in the package smbclient.
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JBR - please CC me (or the debian-l10n-english list) in replies
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: samba
Source-Version: 2:3.3.0~rc2-2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
samba, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
libpam-smbpass_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/libpam-smbpass_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
libsmbclient-dev_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/libsmbclient-dev_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
libsmbclient_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
libwbclient0_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/libwbclient0_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
samba-common_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/samba-common_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
samba-dbg_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/samba-dbg_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
samba-doc-pdf_3.3.0~rc2-2_all.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/samba-doc-pdf_3.3.0~rc2-2_all.deb
samba-doc_3.3.0~rc2-2_all.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/samba-doc_3.3.0~rc2-2_all.deb
samba-tools_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/samba-tools_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
samba_3.3.0~rc2-2.diff.gz
to pool/main/s/samba/samba_3.3.0~rc2-2.diff.gz
samba_3.3.0~rc2-2.dsc
to pool/main/s/samba/samba_3.3.0~rc2-2.dsc
samba_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/samba_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
smbclient_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/smbclient_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
smbfs_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/smbfs_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
swat_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/swat_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
winbind_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/winbind_3.3.0~rc2-2_i386.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Christian Perrier <[email protected]> (supplier of updated samba package)
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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:50:04 +0100
Source: samba
Binary: samba samba-common samba-tools smbclient swat samba-doc samba-doc-pdf
smbfs libpam-smbpass libsmbclient libsmbclient-dev winbind samba-dbg
libwbclient0
Architecture: source all i386
Version: 2:3.3.0~rc2-2
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Samba Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Christian Perrier <[email protected]>
Description:
libpam-smbpass - pluggable authentication module for Samba
libsmbclient - development files for libsmbclient
libsmbclient-dev - libsmbclient static libraries and headers
libwbclient0 - Samba winbind client library
samba - SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix
samba-common - common files used by both the Samba server and client
samba-dbg - Samba debugging symbols
samba-doc - Samba documentation
samba-doc-pdf - Samba documentation in PDF format
samba-tools - Samba testing utilities
smbclient - command line SMB/CIFS clients for Unix
smbfs - Samba file system utilities
swat - Samba Web Administration Tool
winbind - Samba nameservice integration server
Closes: 171177 299618 496196 496197 496199 496200 496202 496203 496204 496205
496206 496207 496208 496211 502838
Changes:
samba (2:3.3.0~rc2-2) experimental; urgency=low
.
[ Steve Langasek ]
* Handle clearing out netbios settings whenever the DHCP server has gone
away. Closes: #299618.
.
[ Christian Perrier ]
* Point the correct document about password encryption in debconf templates
Corrected in translations as well. Closes: #502838
* Reword debconf templates to avoid mentioning the local host as a "server".
Closes: #171177
* Use this opportunity for other minor rewording:
- replace "SMB" by "SMB/CIFS"
- more strongly discouraging the use of plain text passwords
- unpersonnalization
* Reword the libpam-smbpass package description
Thanks to Justin B. Rye for the very useful suggestions
Closes: #496196
* Improve the package descriptions by rewording the description overhaul
Also improve the specific information for samba and samba-dbg
Thanks again to Justin B. Rye for the invaluable help
Closes: #496200
* Improve libsmbclient package description. Closes: #496197
* Improve libwbclient0 package description. Closes: #496199
* Improve samba-doc package description. Closes: #496202
* Improve samba-tools package description. Closes: #496203
* Improve samba-common package description. Closes: #496204
* Improve smbclient package description. Closes: #496205
* Improve smbfs package description. Closes: #496206
* Improve swat package description. Closes: #496207
* Improve winbind package description. Closes: #496208
* Improve samba-doc-pdf package description. Closes: #496211
* Update French debconf translation
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