Comment 9 for bug 231806

You don't have anything to contribute. I offered a you a solution that works right now (and should be very very fast, as it's in the kernel) and hints for everyone wanting to program support for smb:// urls on where to start, that is, by using the GIO library which includes via GVFS support for having applications access smb:// urls, amongst various other types of urls, and is used by GNOME applications like Nautilus (the files browser) for all file access.

I am thus only offering constructive feedback. If you don't realise this, than that's your problem. We have 3 people actively working on APT-related stuff, mostly in free-time (except for mvo where it's probably mostly work-time). I just let you know that this 1/3 is not interested in it (as it's a Microsoft protocol), and offered the other 2/3 and the outsiders the hints for starting to work on this.