Bug#597166: gnome-user-share: please support symlinks in the ~/Public folder

[Fabian Greffrath]

Package: gnome-user-share
Version: 2.30.0-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

I'd like to share my Photos via gnome-user-share and thus I symlink my
~/Pictures folder into my ~/Public folder. However, the Pictures folder does
not appear when I open the shared folder from a remote computer. It only
appears when I copy it, but I simply don't want to duplicate data in my $HOME
just to make them available through gnome-user-share.

 - Fabian



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (501, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-user-share depends on:
ii  apache2.2-bin                2.2.16-2    Apache HTTP Server common binary f
ii  gconf2                       2.28.1-3    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-bluetooth              2.30.0-2    GNOME Bluetooth tools
ii  libapache2-mod-dnssd         0.6-2       Zeroconf support for Apache 2 via 
ii  libatk1.0-0                  1.30.0-1    The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                        2.11.2-6    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2                    1.8.10-6    The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcanberra-gtk0             0.24-1      Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve
ii  libcanberra0                 0.24-1      a simple abstract interface for pl
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.2.24-3    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.88-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1               2.8.0-2.1   generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                 2.4.2-2     FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4                  2.28.1-3    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.24.2-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-bluetooth7          2.30.0-2    GNOME Bluetooth tools - support li
ii  libgtk2.0-0                  2.20.1-1+b1 The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnautilus-extension1       2.30.1-1    libraries for nautilus components 
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2. 0.5.0-2     sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpango1.0-0                1.28.1-1    Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libselinux1                  2.0.96-1    SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libunique-1.0-0              1.1.6-1.1   Library for writing single instanc
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.3.3-3   X11 client-side library
ii  obex-data-server             0.4.5-1+b1  D-Bus service for OBEX client and 

gnome-user-share recommends no packages.

gnome-user-share suggests no packages.

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