Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 11893] Creating debian package doesn't work

Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 19:05:28 +0000

Comment # 6 on bug 11893 from
(In reply to Alexis La Goutte from comment #5)
> (In reply to Balint Reczey from comment #4)
> > (In reply to Alexis La Goutte from comment #3)
> > > Add Balint, the debian "Maintainer" of Wireshark packages (but i get the
> > > same issue on my Ubuntu...) but there is no problem on Ubuntu buildbot...
> > 
> > Building debs from git succeeds, but building debs from tarball fails due to
> > make dist missing some files.
> > I'm testing the fix, but as I expressed a few times we should just stop
> > distributing tarballs created using make dist and move to using git archive.
> > The official Debian packages use git snapshots.
> > 
> > If we still want to ship the tarballs in the current way we should add
> > builds to buildbots from the make dist tarballs for every configuration we
> > care about.
> > 
> > Otherwise we face bugs like this occasionally. :-(
> 
> When i have try it is from git source... (for try lintian...)
I'm fixing master first, have not tried master-2.0 in the last few days.

> 
> but i understood about distributing tarballs...
> now CMake will be the default build system, there is a command for generated
> tarballs ?
No, and I hope there would never be. It would be a misfeature. Just please use
git archive.


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