[Samba] online man pages outdated (latest is 4.17)

[Norbert Hanke]

Debian Bookworm Backports has recent man pages for samba online, most
ist on 4.21.1, see
https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm-backports/samba-common-bin/index.html
and https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm-backports/samba/index.html .

regards, Norbert

On 10.11.2024 17:46, Kees van Vloten via samba wrote:
> Hi Samba team,
>
> In the release notes of 4.21 a new setting "sync machine password
> script" is mentioned and  it says "Check in smb.conf(5)", so that is
> what I am trying to do...
>
> When I browse to
> https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/smb.conf.5.html, it
> turns out that above parameter is not mentioned on this page.
>
>
> My guess is that something is broken in the release scripting. When I
> go to the page https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/, at the top of
> the page there is a list of released versions.
> It reads: " current 4.17 4.16 4.15 4.14 4.13 4.12 4.11 4.10 4.9 4.8
> 4.7 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.0 3.6 3.5 3.4 3.3 3.2", this makes me
> think that the delivery of man-pages failed as of 4.18 and "current"
> is in fact 4.17.
>
>
> I would be very handy to have 4.21 man-pages here as well.
>
> Can somebody have a look at the delivery process for these docs?
>
>
> - Kees.
>
>