On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Feb 3, 2013, at 4:32 PM, Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Isn't "apt-get build-dep wireshark" a much easier way of doing the same thing?
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> Would that install "tools needed to build the package that "apt-get install wireshark" would install" or would it install "tools needed to do full-blown development of the version of Wireshark on the trunk, even if the version on the trunk incorporates a whole bunch of new functionality needing new libraries"?
The former.
> The latter is what I'm aiming for here (especially given that Debian-and-its-derivatives are often proudly trailing-edge in the versions of software that they offer, e.g. I think they might still offer Wireshark 1.6 by default).
That makes more sense. Debian offers 1.8.2 with a few specific
security fixes backported at the moment, since they are still in
freeze before a release. Otherwise I believe they're fairly regular
about picking up the latest upstream. Balint can speak more to that.
Ubuntu (and probably most other derivatives) just take what's latest
from Debian when they release but don't update past that (so the
latest Ubuntu is also on 1.8.2+, but Ubuntu 12.04 is still on 1.6.7 as
that was the latest upstream Wireshark when Ubuntu 12.04 was frozen).