I kindly ask you to decide whether we should keep the Debian package
as-is and explain the use-case for the current state of the Debian
package in Wireshark, because it is not clear to me at all. Honestly,
the situation kind of baffles me since it is not used by the Debian
project and they don't help maintain it. Mistakes happen but it is
necessary to allow debate and course-corrections IMO. I still remember
of painful it was to fix and eventually remove the ABI checker thing
that severely degraded the old autotools build.
I don't think anyone should be upset if things don't go their way, as
long as decisions are based on technical merit and minimally sound
judgement. Anyway it's better to have a resolution for these sort of
disagreements.
On 22/11/23 18:28, Gerald Combs wrote:
I think this falls well within the scope of the steering committee,
and would be a good first exercise.
On 11/22/23 3:45 AM, Roland Knall wrote:
Hi
I would recommend that we bring this topic before the technical
steering committee. As of right now, that committee needs to be
formed in January and this topic is exactly why we are going to have
the committee in the first place. The process is in the final steps
and should be finished by the end of the year anyway.
I do not think that further discussing this issue is actually
beneficial for the long term resolution of this situation. Both sides
have valid arguments and good pointers and I would suggest as soon as
the committee has taken up the topic we collectively create a single
mission statement as suggested by Joao above. Until then, personally
I will refrain from discussing this further, as I have said
everything there is to say from my perspective.
Do you agree Gerald?
kind regards
Roland
Am Mi., 22. Nov. 2023 um 12:36 Uhr schrieb João Valverde <j@xxxxxx
<mailto:j@xxxxxx>>:
__
Maybe you´d like to volunteer to maintain the Wireshark Debian
assets? Since you've got the experience and actually use it?
There are loads of lintian warnings waiting to be fixed, or there
were until recently. Maybe you'd like to start there, and be more
active staying on top of the all-important symbol lists. Just a thought.
On 21/11/23 15:00, Anders Broman wrote:
Hi,
I found it useful to be able to do Debian packages easily to
provide internal installation packages and even ppa for Ubuntu.
So I have been using the Debian build system.
Best regards
Anders
Den tis 21 nov. 2023 15:48Roland Knall <rknall@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:rknall@xxxxxxxxx>> skrev:
As mentioned on the ticket - just putting it here as well -
I am against dropping packaging/debian. But I am for having it
underneath packaging, and not in the main directory, which is what
the original change was about. I respect Joao's opinion as well as
yours Balint. In this case here I think, we can provide assistance
for future implementors and as a starting point, by keeping the
directory underneath packaging/debian.
just my thoughts
Roland
Am Di., 21. Nov. 2023 um 15:28 Uhr schrieb Bálint Réczey
<balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>:
Hi All,
João shared his opinion about the project's commitment
to maintain the
packaging/debian/ in the project's repository:
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/commit/79da670bd1b4f91eebee5c96b19eaf1f33c94777#note_1656501952
<https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/commit/79da670bd1b4f91eebee5c96b19eaf1f33c94777#note_1656501952>
I believe the current practice is reasonable and
beneficial enough for
many parties to warrant the work, but I could be wrong.
Probably the most important question is if there is
anyone relying on
the packaging scripts there. If you are, please speak up
otherwise the
directory may be dropped.
Comments are welcome.
Cheers,
Balint
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