On Nov 12, 2025, at 11:08 AM, Jaap Keuter via Wireshark-dev <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> From Discord #developer-den: "Hello, one quick question: will https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/merge_requests/22129 be backported to `release-4.6` which currently has broken public headers?"
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> The MR of which the question already was: Does this fix #20003?
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> Can we answer this?
(Was this question asked earlier, in an issue or a mail message? I have some memory of that, but can't find it in my mailboxes.)
On the one hand, the merge request changed a lot of files.
On the other hand, the changes were largely trivial - changing the #includes in source files. A bunch of stuff was also moved from wtap-int.h to wtap_module.h.
So my inclination is to backport it - it doesn't change any APIs or ABIs (other than removing an unused and unset variable wtap_num_file_types), and should also not change any code behavior.