Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark ABI stability 1.6.4 -> 1.6.5
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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:56:40 -0800
On 1/8/12 12:08 PM, Balint Reczey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have run tools/git-compare-abis.sh on latest master-1.6
> (wireshark-1.6.4-21-ga6c3642).
> 
> The ABI is almost totally stable [1], which is very good sign for plugin
> developers and for anyone using Wireshark's libraries.  :-)
> 
> There is only a minor incompatibility in packet-zbee-zcl.h caused by
> changed constants, which could be fixed by not backporting r40133.

The ABI change is the result of fixing a bug. If we revert the change
the ZigBee ZCL dissector will revert back to its previous broken
behavior and packet-zbee-zcl.h will have incorrect definitions.
Shouldn't we change the libwireshark version from 2:0:1 to 2:1:0 instead?