Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Supported GnuTLS/glib/libgcrypt versions?
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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:07:41 -0700
On 10/12/15 11:02 AM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> On 10/11/15 17:32, Peter Wu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Michal reported to me that a recent change in the SSL dissector was not
>> compatible with older GnuTLS versions[1].
>>
>> The changes introduced the use of functions gnutls_pubkey_import and
>> gnutls_pubkey_import_rsa_raw which were introduced with GnuTLS 2.12.0 in
>> 2011-03-24 (2.11.3 development). Michal is using (RHEL6?) GnuTLS 2.8.5
>> (released in November 2009).
>>
>> Since the minimum Qt4 version for upcoming Wireshark 2.0 is already
>> higher than what RHEL6 ships, would you mind if the GnuTLS version is
>> also bumped?
> 
> Since GnuTLS is optional [and I don't do decryption very often ;-)] I don't
> really mind.  I can't say that I know how much the rest of the RHEL 6 world
> uses decryption though.
> 
> But you do raise a good point: I should start doing test compiles of the
> 2.0 rc on RHEL 6.  I hadn't realized my users would have to continue using
> the Gtk+ GUI.  Too bad...

What version of Qt does RHEL 6 ship with? I bumped the minimum Qt version
to 4.7 because we use QElapsedTimer in a few places but we might be able to
switch to a different API if needed.