[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#491997: #491997 samba: please move WHATSNEW.txt etc. to the samba-common package

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Tue Aug 12 13:16:53 UTC 2008


On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:52:47AM +0200, Noèl Köthe wrote:

> I think it makes sense to have some of the files in -common so they will
> be available for everybody regardless they install just the client or
> the server part.
> The only disadvantage I see that people are always looking
> into /usr/share/doc/samba/.

> What do you, Christian and Steve, think about it?

I'm ok with this; I think the files should still be shipped under
/usr/share/doc/samba rather than /usr/share/doc/samba-common in that case.
This is the main reason I haven't fixed this yet, because AFAIK debhelper
won't do this for you nicely and I didn't feel like implementing an
inelegant solution. :)

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