Hi!
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.
In my own experience, wsdd is far more reliable for this than wsdd2 that has had known issues with IPv6....
Is this possible please? See below...
On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 11:00:14PM +1200, Matt Grant wrote:
> Due to me being busy with a house move for a couple of months, I honestly
> didn't corral the wsdd and wsdd-server packages into testing through the
> release process, even though I did fix the bugs that caused it to be
> removed in a timely fashion.
> The packages are used by Gnome 48 to browse Windows networks for machines,
> and to announce a machine to Windows on a LAN. There has been some
> consternation about them going missing from the stable release, as a
> version did make it into Bookworm.
> These packages are far more reliable than the wsdd2 package, and work
> properly with IPv6 unlike wsdd2 - correct me if I'm wrong.
> I'm the package maintainer, so I can maintain the backport. Do I need
> someone else to sponsor the package as well?
In theory the release team could re-add it in a point release if you
make a good case for it. Consider that option before maintaining a
backport, since it's got a number of advantages (the security team pays
attention to it, it's published for the full lifetime of the release,
etc)
noah
Thank you!
Matt Grant
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Debian Developer