On Sun, 10 Aug 2025 at 07:29:46 +0200, Franck wrote:
Package gvfs-backends 1.57.2-2 in trixie recommends wsdd.
https://packages.debian.org/trixie/gvfs-backends
But wsdd is not available in trixie:
$ rmadison wsdd
wsdd | 2:0.7.0-2.1 | oldstable | source, all
wsdd | 2:0.8-5 | unstable | source, all
https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=wsdd
Recommending wsdd2 may be an alternative (I did not check if gvfs-backends
works with it) ?
$ rmadison wsdd2
wsdd2 | 1.8.7+dfsg-1.1 | oldstable | source, amd64, arm64, armel,
armhf, i386, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
wsdd2 | 1.8.7+dfsg-1.2 | stable | source, amd64, armel, armhf,
i386, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
wsdd2 | 1.8.7+dfsg-1.2 | testing | source, amd64, armel, armhf,
i386, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
wsdd2 | 1.8.7+dfsg-1.2 | unstable | source, amd64, armel, armhf,
i386, mips64el, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
wsdd2 | 1.8.7+dfsg-1.2 | unstable-debug | source
wsdd2 | 1.8.7+dfsg-1.2+b1 | stable | arm64
wsdd2 | 1.8.7+dfsg-1.2+b1 | testing | arm64
wsdd2 | 1.8.7+dfsg-1.2+b1 | unstable | arm64
As per https://launchpad.net/bugs/2081735 wsdd appears to be used to
browse SMB/CIFS shared drives from Windows 10 or later, but I don't have
Windows servers on my LAN, so I can't really test this functionality.
Alessandro, you fixed LP#2081735 - do you know whether wsdd2 is
sufficient API-compatible that gvfs can use it? I'm not sure I
understand the relationship between wsdd and wsdd2, or their maintenance
status - from their Homepage fields it seems like they might be
completely unrelated projects with confusingly similar names?
Strictly speaking, an unsatisfiable Recommends is a Policy violation
(ยง2.2.1) so if nothing else gvfs-daemons' Recommends should be reduced
to a Suggests at least in trixie, assuming the stable release managers
don't want to add wsdd in 13.1.
wsdd was only a Suggests for several months, and browsing network
shares doesn't seem like crucial functionality to me, more like a
nice-to-have. Perhaps gvfs-backends could have it as a Suggests, and
some larger metapackage like gnome or ubuntu-desktop could elevate that
to Recommends if desired?
smcv
