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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] master 97e1491: Sync .deb packaging from

From: Réczey Bálint <rbalint@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 17:25:22 +0700
Hi Jörg,

2014-06-08 23:16 GMT+07:00 Réczey Bálint <rbalint@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Ok, I'm fine with removing them. In Debian they are needed by netexpect.
> BTW may I ask why are they not welcomed?
>
> 2014.06.08. 22:43, "Joerg Mayer" <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx> ezt írta:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 03:32:12PM +0000, Wireshark code review wrote:
>> > URL:
>> > https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=97e1491aa8f418a7f5bd7fdd92561d2403c187f6
>> > Submitter: Balint Reczey (balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>> > Changed: branch: master
>> > Repository: wireshark
>> >
>> > Commits:
>> >
>> > 97e1491 by Balint Reczey (balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx):
>> >
>> >     Sync .deb packaging from Debian
>> >
>> >     The sync makes CMake the build system for the .deb package
>> >     and starts providing wireshark-qt in the wireshark-qt package.
>> >     The package structure, i.e. the libraries are shipped in separate
>> >     packages is also sync-ed.
>> >
>> >     Wireshark-qt uses the Qt 4 libraries, but it is easy to switch
>> >     it to Qt 5.
>>
>> While most of these changes make sense, Wireshark developers including
>> me have been unhappy about the existence of the -dev packages. Adding
>> the -dev package to the official Wireshark packaging is a no go IMO.
wireshark-dev was present even before my commit, I just split it for
matching the separated libraries.

Cheers,
Balint