Bug#1005270: ITP: wsdd -- The Web Service Discovery Daemon, to announce hosts for the Windows Network Browser

[Matthew Grant <matt@mattgrant.net.nz>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Matthew Grant <matt@mattgrant.net.nz>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : wsdd
  Version         : 0.7.0
  Upstream Author : Steffan Christgau <mail@s14u.de>
* URL             : https://github.com/christgau/wsdd
* License         : MIT License
  Programming Lang: Python 3
  Description     : The Web Service Discovery Daemon, to announce hosts for the Windows Network Browser

This daemon is used to announce Linux Hosts to Windows 7+ computers for
use in their File Manager network browsing, by using the Windows
Services Discovery Protocol.

This protocol is a local network segment procotol, which is multicasted
on udp/3072, and incoming on tcp/5357 on the 239.255.255.250/ff02::c
multicast addresses.  It DOES have security issues, but it is designed
for use in a trusted environment inside a firewall.

Its quite useful for Samba, taking over from WINS and the Samba nmbd
daemon.  Installing this restores the Network browsing functionality to
Windows 7+ Samba clients.

I am initially getting it packaged and aceptted, dealing with intial
bugs, and then will pass it on to the Debian Python Maintainers Team of
which I am a member.