Comment # 5
on bug 8190
from Guy Harris
(In reply to comment #4)
> Does it make sense for Wireshark to own the rpm and debian configurations?
Does it make sense for us to own packaging configurations for any platform for
which we don't supply our own packaged versions? If the packagers just follow
our lead, and don't do their own packaging work, it might, but if the packagers
do their own work (and maybe even patch Wireshark to fit their way of doing
things), I'm not sure it makes sense.
The impression I have is that:
in Linuxland, software packages are generally prepared by the distributor,
not by the software developers, and that, at least in the distributions using
dpkg and RPM (which are, I think, the only distributions for which we have our
own packaging configurations), the distributors do their own packaging work
and, at least in Debian, even patch Wireshark to fit their way of doing things;
in BSDland, software packages are generally prepared by the *BSD project in
question (we don't do anything for them currently);
in Solaris, there are a number of third-party packages of Wireshark, and
for Solaris 11 there's a shiny new Official Packaging System:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/technologies/ips-323421.html
and, at least on my Solaris 11 (virtual) machine, it finds wireshark
packages (wireshark, tshark, and wireshark-common), the current versions of
which are 1.8.2 (we have SVR4 package configuration, but I don't know whether
any of the third-party packagers use them, and we do nothing for the Image
Packaging System);
in HP-UX, there's the HP Porting and Archive Centre, and they currently
have 1.8.4 (we don't do anything for them currently);
in AIX, there are a number of third-party packages of Wireshark (we don't
do anything for them currently);
in various other UN*Xes (which I think are dead at this point, e.g. Tru64
UNIX and IRIX, which are pretty much in maintenance mode only, if even that),
there are third-party packagers, and we don't do anything for them except
perhaps the SVR4 package stuff, and I'm not sure they supported SVR4 packages.
At this point, my inclination is to drop the Debian, RPM, and SVR4 packaging
stuff, supply what cross-platform files would be useful to put into those
packages (e.g., wireshark.desktop), and leave it up to the packagers to do
whatever's necessary for their packaging systems.
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