On 21/12/23 12:43, Bálint Réczey wrote:
Hi João,
On 2023. Dec 21., Thu at 12:02, João Valverde <j@xxxxxx> wrote:
On 20/12/23 23:20, Anders Broman wrote:
> Hi,
> To me it is a useful feature to be able to easily build .deb
packages
> and make repos to easily update and maintain wireshark across
servers.
> This is a feature I vote for us to keep regardless of any
opinion on
> how Debian build their packages. Maybe a Debian mailing list is a
> better place to discuss their build system?
I don't know what that has anything to do with what I said below but
that is totally fine. I'm not against a Debian package. I'm against
mirroring Debian in this project. I note you
The package is not an exact mirror of the one in Debian. I make
changes in Debian first targeting Debian unstable that has the latest
packages and I follow the latest best practices there.
The packaging scripts here target the broadest set of supported Debian
an Ubuntu releases to help installing it anywhere.
A good example is that Wireshark in unstable builds wit Qt6, while the
Debian scripts here use Qt5.
I cherry pick changes which I believe to be useful here. I noticed
that others updated build dependencies here earlier sometimes as
Wireshark started supporting building with them in master and I’m
thankful for that. Also thanks for other packaging related fixes.
I already explained in this thread why the package and file layout are
the same here as in Debian.
I agree it makes life easier for you but I don't agree that it is a
technical requirement or that it benefits anyone else. Anyway I think
Wireshark should be using CPack for Debian and RPM and that is my final
contribution to this topic.
Regards,
João