Bug#1110689: gvfs-backends recommends wsdd which is not available in trixie

[Alessandro Astone]

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.