Bug#1110689: Backporting wsdd to trixie-backports from sid

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM Matt Grant <matt at mattgrant.net.nz> 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