This was raised in Debian, and the maintainer explained that this was an intentional decision (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286218)
With that background, I think we should have a fairly strong consensus before moving to a different policy in Ubuntu. Here's the debian maintainer's explanation: "That is intentional, there is no way to write a sane default configuration file without a lot of debconf questions and a complex script to handle it. As the package is intended for administrators that already have done a lot of customizations to other configurations (slapd, samba) it seems better to force them to read the HOWTO or at least the README.Debian. Besides all that, I'm using the package on a CDD and no configuration allows me to provide custom configuration files for this package without breaking the Debian policy. I'll change the bug severity to wishlist and tag it wontfix." ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #286218 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286218 ** Also affects: smbldap-tools (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286218 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: smbldap-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist -- Unable to open /etc/opt/IDEALX/smbldap-tools/smbldap.conf for reading https://launchpad.net/bugs/53789 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
