Bug#496200: samba: package description overhaul

2008-08-23 Thread Justin B Rye
Steve Langasek wrote: > > Problems shared with other packages in the set: > > * Developers Reference 6.2.2 says the package synopsis should not > > begin with an article. > > The devref recommendation is wrong. DevRef is not policy, and the > grammatical justification given in 6.2.2 is bogus:

Bug#496200: samba: package description overhaul

2008-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 01:55:23PM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: > Current package description: > # Description: a LanManager-like file and printer server for Unix > # The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that > # implements the SMB/CIFS protocol for unix systems, allowing y

Bug#496200: samba: package description overhaul

2008-08-23 Thread Justin B Rye
Package: samba 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 al