clone 534595 -1 retitle -1 samba-common-bin split should be at least documented severity -1 important thanks
Quoting Nelson A. de Oliveira (nao...@debian.org): > Package: samba-common-bin > Version: 2:3.4.0~rc1-1 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package uninstallable > > Hi! > > While trying to find why nmblookup isn't available anymore on my system (*), > I see this: .../... > (*) then I saw #524661; shouldn't this split be documented at least in > NEWS.Debian? It isn't everybody that reads the Debian changelog and sometimes > it can't be clear that the user needs to now install samba-common-bin too. You're right on both points (and thanks for the patch which seems correct). The split indeed deserves *at least* a mention in NEWS.Debian. I even wonder whether it deserves more. After all, if we end up with our users "losing" binary utilities such as smblookup or nmblookup because of the split, then we need to do something. On my profesionnal samba servers, I happen to have several utility scripts that indeed use smblookup to perform various tasks over the network (such as identifying Windws machines that come on the network without being properly declared in the DNS...being able to spot them with their "Windows name" often helps a lot finding the person whowe'll hit with our base-ball bat)..
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