On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 03:54 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 08:24:00AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Quoting Chris M. Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > On 11/18/05, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The bug submitter in #231806 suggest that we at least document why > > > > scripts in sources/scripts are *not* packaged in Debian packages. > > > > > He mentions findsmb in the bug report, but this actually is similar > > > > for all utilities in source/scripts such as smbtar. > > > > > I think it would be worth adding some words in README.Debian about > > > > this. > > > > Out of interest, what *is* the reason for them being entirely missing, > > > even from some samba-utils (or something) package? > > > Well, this is more or less the question That stepped in my mind. > > > The suggestion for a samba-utils seems worth to be considered at the > > minimum. Let's wait for the advice of other contributors to the samba > > package > > No particular reason, AFAIK. If you decide to put together a samba-utils > package, please make sure that everything you put in it is both useful, and > functional on Debian. :)
And secure. I would love an audit of backticks in that code... I think this may be why RH doesn't ship some of this, but it's never been formally brought up by anyone. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Samba Developer, SuSE Labs, Novell Inc. http://suse.de Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College http://hawkerc.net
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