[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#591062: samba: smb.conf man page missing

Christian Kujau lists at nerdbynature.de
Sat Feb 26 00:57:14 UTC 2011


> 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.

Thanks,
Christian.





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