[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#451269: Action for this bug report?

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Sun Nov 16 05:10:06 UTC 2008


On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 06:44:47PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> tags 451269 wontfix
> thanks

> In #451269, a long discussion happened about cases where the smb.conf
> file is broken enough to prevent smbd from starting.

> My feeling is that Steve does not consider this to be a bug. If the
> configuration is broken, then the package postinst fails and that's
> the best way for the local admin to know that something is wrong.

> I think this bug should at least be marked wontfix, if not closed.

I'm ok with Mathias' last suggestion about more user-friendly error messages
or doing a testparm dry run somewhere along the line, and think we should
consider any patches that implement this.

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