On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 16:57 -0800, Christian Kujau wrote: > > There is indeed an smb.conf manpage. It is provided by the > > samba-common-bin package, which is recommended by samba-common. > > Why is the manpage in a -bin package? Because the manpange is compressed > via gzip, and therefore "binary"? I would expect the manpage to be > installed when either smbd or smbclient are installed, or any other tools > making use of the manpage. Since most samba-packages depend on > samba-common, I'd love to see the manpage included there. The changelog > mentions #524661, but not that the manpages were moved as well. > > To be honest, it was quite a ride to finally find this bugreport only to > see that there really *is* a manpage, but in a (seemlingly unrelated) > package. > > Please reconsider and make smb.conf.5 a part of samba-common again. samba-common is shared between samba 3 and samba 4. samba-common-bin is specific to Samba 3, and the smb.conf man page is specific to Samba 3. When installing just Samba 4, we should not be installing the Samba 3 smb.conf file.
Perhaps we should look at renaming samba-common-bin and samba4-common-bin to something that expresses the situation better. Cheers, Jelmer
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