[Bug 786813] Re: Enable avahi support in samba

[Bryan Henry]

Luri, a static avahi service file isn't a great solution since you lose
any of the dynamic Avahi support in Samba, like for the pending
F_FULLSYNC changes: https://github.com/samba-team/samba/pull/64. It
would be best to just enable Avahi support, which is what Debian
apparently did.

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Title:
  Enable avahi support in samba

Status in samba package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in samba package in Debian:
  Fix Released
Status in samba package in Fedora:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: samba

  The debian developers disabled avahi support back in 2009:

  * ./configure --disable-avahi, to avoid accidentally picking up an avahi
      dependency when libavahi-common-dev is installed.

   -- Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org>  Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:01:12
  -0700

  As ubuntu typically installs avahi by default, can this be switched
  back on to provide a browsing alternative to netbios?

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