(Jakub, this is a reply to a mail [1] in the debian-kde mailing list, which asks why our KDE 3.4 packages don't include ZeroConf support.)
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2005/04/msg00092.html * Sebastian Ley [Wed, 06 Apr 2005 01:42:48 +0200]: > Hello, Hello Sebastian, > I just tried out the new KDE 3.4 packages from Alioth. Except for a filename > clash between kmail and kdebase-data which needed manual intervention > (manually upgrade kdebase-data beforehand), installation went smoothly. > Thanks for the good work! > However I noticed that the ZeroConf stuff is not packaged. There is an > ioslave > and perhaps other stuff which I would have liked to play with. Is there any > reason why it is not packaged? Yes, because mDNSResponder is not in Debian. Some relevant facts: - there is a mdnsresponder package in Debian, but it comes from the 'howl' source package. From what I've read (from KDE dnssd/INSTALL file), it doesn't contain the _original_ mDNSResponder from Apple, but a forked version. - howl is being removed from Debian (see bug #289856), because contains code licensed under the APSL, which is considered non-DFSG free by debian-legal. AFAIK, other distributions as Ubuntu are removing it too. - in theory someone could package the original Apple version and put it in non-free or something, but I don't know how would one make kdelibs use that (IOW, how would one split kdelibs and the rest of stuff). - I believe GNOME is moving away from Howl, and that a new library (Avahi [2]) written from scratch is being pushed. In [3], it says "this projects seems dead unfortunately", but that may no longer be the case. Still, I have no idea if KDE upstream keeps an eye on this project, or has any plans on using it some day. (Upstream CC'ed to gather information about this.) [2] http://freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi [3] http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Zeroconf%20in%20KDE Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó EM: asp16 [ykwim] alu.ua.es | PK: DA6AE621 Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment: the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. -- Jorge Luis Borges -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]