On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM Matt Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > As described below, unfortunately wsdd missed being in Trixie due to my > business with a house build and move. As below, Noah said it would be > preferable that wsdd be included in the Trixie 13.1 point release. > > It's required for publishing Samba servers to Windows 10 plus on the same > LAN, and for Gnome 48 SMB share browsing functionality on a 'Windows' LAN, > and a lot of Debian derivative distributions would be wanting to add it back > in.
On behalf of the Debian GNOME team, I also request that wsdd be added to Trixie. gvfs-backends has Recommends: wsdd. The RC bug that got wsdd removed on May 12 was https://bugs.debian.org/1100767 . I noticed the bug at one point while looking at RC bugs but then forgot about the bug. The Debian GNOME team did not notice the package's removal until https://bugs.debian.org/1110689 was filed; otherwise, we might have removed the Recommends since I believe it is technically a violation of Debian Policy § 2.2.1 for a package in main to recommend a package that isn't in main. https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#the-main-archive-area Thank you, Jeremy BÍcha
