[pkg-kde-talk] Re: kdnssd and avahi/libnss-mdns

Jonathan Riddell jriddell at ubuntu.com
Wed Jan 18 12:11:22 UTC 2006


On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:08:13AM +0100, Isaac Clerencia wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 January 2006 23:22, Christopher Martin wrote:
> > > Related to the original cause of this thread: have you thought about
> > > integrating kdednssd-avahi into the core KDE packages like the Ubuntu
> > > people did? It think it makes a lot of sense, as does Jakub who
> > > originally proposed this on Avahi's IRC channel.
> >
> > We've patched kdelibs to use avahi, so any user who installs the Debian
> > package kdnssd will get avahi zeroconf ability. I think this is the same
> > approach that Ubuntu took.
> Ubuntu just packaged kdnssd-avahi as a separate package which provided 
> libkdnssd.so and made kdelibs4 not provide it. Ubuntu usually tries to "sync" 
> with Debian, so may be they have switched to our approach now.

Yes, I switched to using Isaac's patch.

Jonathan



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