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Jeremy BĂ­cha (jbicha) wrote :

Availability
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Built for all supported architectures. In sync with Debian.

Rationale
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Ubuntu has shipped gnome-user-share for years but a key feature (and now its only feature) was broken because its required dependencies weren't installed (likely because of reluctance to ship Apache in the default install.)

The feature, called Personal File Sharing, uses WebDAV to share files over the network. It needs apache2-bin and libapache2-mod-dnnsd. Those packages are not enough to actually run a web server. apache2 is already in main.

I believe every other GNOME distro has shipped this feature and its required dependencies by default for several years.

The Ubuntu Desktop team would like to ship this feature pre-installed. It won't actually be enabled until a user turns it on in Settings > Sharing > File Sharing. When turned on, the user's ~/Public folder is shared. A password can easily be set and the user can pick specific networks to share to.

Security
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No known security issues

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mod-dnssd
https://launchpad.net/mod-dnssd/+cve

Quality assurance
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- Please subscribe the Ubuntu Desktop Bugs team to this package.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mod-dnssd
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=mod-dnssd
I don't see a public bug tracker upstream.

No upstream tests or autopkgtests.

Dependencies
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No universe binary dependencies

Standards compliance
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3.9.2, debhelper compat 5, old style debhelper rules

Maintenance
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Last upstream release was in 2009:
http://git.0pointer.net/mod_dnssd.git/log/

Last upload was a NMU in 2013.

The Debian source can be browsed at
https://sources.debian.net/src/mod-dnssd/unstable/