Bug#1088117: kio-extras: Please enable SMB features

[Patrick Franz <deltaone@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 19:51:16 +0300 Grundik <grundik@ololo.cc> wrote:
> Package: kio-extras
> Version: 4:24.08.0-1
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-Cc: grundik@ololo.cc
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> As I can see, SMB functionality was disabled sometime after the 
> 23.08.4 version, and control file states:
> 
> #               libsmbclient-dev, # re-enable once KDSoap & kdsoap-ws-
> discovery-client have been updated
> 
> please consider re-enabling this feature, since smb is quite popular 
> file sharing protocol.

There is nothing to consider here really. We simply cannot enable smb-
support at this stage because of missing dependencies.
To enable it, we need updated versions of KDSoap & kdsoap-ws-discovery-
client. As long as they are not available in Debian, we cannot enable 
smb-support.
So if you really want smb, please help updating those 2 libraries.


> jfyi: ubuntu kio-extras package do have it enabled, and ubuntu package
> currently compatible with debian ones, so if one manually installs 
> kio-extras, kio-extras-data, kdsoap-ws-discovery-client and libkdsoap-
> qt6-2 from ubuntu repos instead of debian, smb functionality will work 
> in kde.

Please no. That is a horrible idea and asking for trouble.


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Patrick Franz