On 10/08/2025 16:27, Simon McVittie wrote:
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?
No, the two projects are completely independent and have different
interfaces.
The gvfs integration is specifically for the christgau/wsdd project.
Strictly speaking, an unsatisfiable Recommends is a Policy violation
(§2.2.1) 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
Yeah sounds good to me. Feel free to upload that change to debian.
