Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Regarding the merging of the patch
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From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:06:11 -0700
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 09:28:45PM -0800, sippyemail-wireshark@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I want to know how the patching process for Wireshark development works?

http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/LifeCycle

> I was happy to know that the patch was included. However it is in the 
> trunk and not trunk-1.4. Does it not mean it will not go into future 
> releases of Wireshark 1.4?

Correct.  It will be released in the future 1.6 release.

> If I want to get that into future releases of Wireshark 1.4, what is 
> the process?

Only bug fixes are back-ported from trunk to trunk-1.4 (and trunk-1.2) to 
keep it a stable release.