Your message dated Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:02:09 +0000
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line Bug#496206: fixed in samba 2:3.3.0~rc2-3
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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--- Begin Message ---
Source: samba
Source-Version: 2:3.3.0~rc2-3
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~rc2-3_amd64.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/libpam-smbpass_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.deb
libsmbclient-dev_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/libsmbclient-dev_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.deb
libsmbclient_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.deb
libwbclient0_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/libwbclient0_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.deb
samba-common_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/samba-common_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.deb
samba-dbg_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/samba-dbg_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.deb
samba-doc-pdf_3.3.0~rc2-3_all.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/samba-doc-pdf_3.3.0~rc2-3_all.deb
samba-doc_3.3.0~rc2-3_all.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/samba-doc_3.3.0~rc2-3_all.deb
samba-tools_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/samba-tools_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.deb
samba_3.3.0~rc2-3.diff.gz
to pool/main/s/samba/samba_3.3.0~rc2-3.diff.gz
samba_3.3.0~rc2-3.dsc
to pool/main/s/samba/samba_3.3.0~rc2-3.dsc
samba_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/samba_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.deb
smbclient_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/smbclient_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.deb
smbfs_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/smbfs_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.deb
swat_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/swat_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.deb
winbind_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.deb
to pool/main/s/samba/winbind_3.3.0~rc2-3_amd64.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.
Steve Langasek <[email protected]> (supplier of updated samba package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:42:05 -0800
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 amd64
Version: 2:3.3.0~rc2-3
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Samba Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Steve Langasek <[email protected]>
Description:
libpam-smbpass - pluggable authentication module for Samba
libsmbclient - shared library for communication with SMB/CIFS servers
libsmbclient-dev - development files for libsmbclient
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: 496206
Changes:
samba (2:3.3.0~rc2-3) experimental; urgency=low
.
* Fix around the libsmbclient/libsmbclient-dev descriptions, which got
swapped in the last upload.
* Drop a boilerplate sentence from the samba-common, smbclient, swat,
samba-doc, samba-doc-pdf, samba-dbg, and libwbclient0 descriptions
that's not relevant for these packages.
* Hyphenate "command-line" in the smbclient short description.
* Fix up the smbclient description, which got crossed with the smbfs one.
* Fix the smbfs description, which was not actually fixed in the previous
upload. Really closes: #496206.
* Further minor adjustments to the description of the swat package.
* Fix various inaccuracies in the winbind package description.
* Clarify in the description that samba-tools are extra, only useful for
testing.
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