[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#249873: Bug#249873: Patch

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Nikolaus Rath (Nikolaus at rath.org):

> Hmm. I think defaulting to /etc/samba/private now, only to have another
> transition once we've convinced upstream to comply with FHS is inviting
> trouble.
> 
> If we have to obey FHS, wouldn't it be much easier to just replace
> fhs-filespaths.patch with a patch that replaces the *default* value for
> "private dir" to /var/lib/samba/private?

Good idea, indeed. The simplest one and one not involving any
transition, really. You get a GO from my side for this change..:-)

Even more : the location wrt the FHS could be debatable : after all
/var/lib/samba/private is not such a bad place.

> In that case, the transition should be painless in almost all cases. No
> data needs to be moved, and no smb.conf adjusted in most cases.
> 
> The only case that could cause problems is systems that have defined
> "private dir" in smb.conf but relied on it being ignored. But these
> cases could be handled by a warning in NEWS.Debian. If that's not
> enough, we could have the postinst check smb.conf and give a warning if
> "private dir" is defined. But I don't think that we have to care too
> much about systems whose configuration relies on an obvious bug
> (configuration setting being ignored).

Agreed too. Adding a warning (debconf note or error) is too much
hassle for such a corner case and NEWS.Debian is fine for this.


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