On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 09:28:45PM -0800, sippyemail-wireshark@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I want to know how the patching process for Wireshark development works?
http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/LifeCycle
> I was happy to know that the patch was included. However it is in the
> trunk and not trunk-1.4. Does it not mean it will not go into future
> releases of Wireshark 1.4?
Correct. It will be released in the future 1.6 release.
> If I want to get that into future releases of Wireshark 1.4, what is
> the process?
Only bug fixes are back-ported from trunk to trunk-1.4 (and trunk-1.2) to
keep it a stable release.