Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-12-22 Thread João Valverde
On 21/12/23 12:43, Bálint Réczey wrote: Hi João, On 2023. Dec 21., Thu at 12:02, João Valverde wrote: On 20/12/23 23:20, Anders Broman wrote: > Hi, > To me it is a useful feature to be able to easily build .deb packages > and make repos to easily update and maintain

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-12-21 Thread Bálint Réczey
Hi Guy, Guy Harris ezt írta (időpont: 2023. dec. 21., Cs, 21:04): > > On Dec 21, 2023, at 6:51 AM, Bálint Réczey wrote: > > > I'm not sure why libvirt dissector users should be "their users". In my > > eyes they are very much our users as well since they use Wireshark extended > > with the

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-12-21 Thread Guy Harris
On Dec 21, 2023, at 6:51 AM, Bálint Réczey wrote: > I'm not sure why libvirt dissector users should be "their users". In my eyes > they are very much our users as well since they use Wireshark extended with > the plugin and I'm happy that they get the best service. It appears that the

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-12-21 Thread Bálint Réczey
Hi Roland, Roland Knall ezt írta (időpont: 2023. dec. 20., Sze, 20:44): > > We messed up in a sense, that we should have found an argument and final position on API compatibility. Not that it did not work out well, but it "happened" instead of being planned > > That was, what I meant with

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-12-21 Thread Bálint Réczey
Hi João, On 2023. Dec 21., Thu at 12:02, João Valverde wrote: > > On 20/12/23 23:20, Anders Broman wrote: > > Hi, > > To me it is a useful feature to be able to easily build .deb packages > > and make repos to easily update and maintain wireshark across servers. > > This is a feature I vote for

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-12-21 Thread Anders Broman
Den tors 21 dec. 2023 12:03João Valverde skrev: > > On 20/12/23 23:20, Anders Broman wrote: > > Hi, > > To me it is a useful feature to be able to easily build .deb packages > > and make repos to easily update and maintain wireshark across servers. > > This is a feature I vote for us to keep

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-12-21 Thread João Valverde
On 20/12/23 23:20, Anders Broman wrote: Hi, To me it is a useful feature to be able to easily build .deb packages and make repos to easily update and maintain wireshark across servers. This is a feature I vote for us to keep regardless of any opinion on how Debian build their packages. Maybe

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-12-20 Thread Anders Broman
Hi, To me it is a useful feature to be able to easily build .deb packages and make repos to easily update and maintain wireshark across servers. This is a feature I vote for us to keep regardless of any opinion on how Debian build their packages. Maybe a Debian mailing list is a better place to

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-12-20 Thread João Valverde
On 20/12/23 22:35, Roland Knall wrote: Am 20.12.2023 um 22:43 schrieb João Valverde :  On 20/12/23 21:21, Roland Knall wrote: Am 20.12.2023 um 22:02 schrieb João Valverde :  On 20/12/23 20:52, Roland Knall wrote: So people can link to our libraries to write other projets? And

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-12-20 Thread Roland Knall
> Am 20.12.2023 um 22:43 schrieb João Valverde : > >  > >> On 20/12/23 21:21, Roland Knall wrote: >> Am 20.12.2023 um 22:02 schrieb João Valverde : >>> >>>  >>> On 20/12/23 20:52, Roland Knall wrote: So people can link to our libraries to write other projets?

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-12-20 Thread João Valverde
On 20/12/23 21:21, Roland Knall wrote: Am 20.12.2023 um 22:02 schrieb João Valverde :  On 20/12/23 20:52, Roland Knall wrote: So people can link to our libraries to write other projets? And expect it to work reliably? That is news to me. I have made this question many times over the

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-12-20 Thread Roland Knall
> Am 20.12.2023 um 22:02 schrieb João Valverde : > >  > >> On 20/12/23 20:52, Roland Knall wrote: >> >> >> Am Mi., 20. Dez. 2023 um 21:24 Uhr schrieb João Valverde : >> >> >> >>On 20/12/23 16:06, Roland Knall wrote: >>> Ok, I am not ignoring those points, as I think those points

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-12-20 Thread João Valverde
On 20/12/23 20:52, Roland Knall wrote: Am Mi., 20. Dez. 2023 um 21:24 Uhr schrieb João Valverde : On 20/12/23 16:06, Roland Knall wrote: > Ok, I am not ignoring those points, as I think those points are valid. > It makes sense, that building debian packages from the

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-12-20 Thread Roland Knall
Am Mi., 20. Dez. 2023 um 21:24 Uhr schrieb João Valverde : > > > On 20/12/23 16:06, Roland Knall wrote: > > Ok, I am not ignoring those points, as I think those points are valid. > > It makes sense, that building debian packages from the repository > > should behave in the same way as it does

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-12-20 Thread João Valverde
On 20/12/23 16:06, Roland Knall wrote: Ok, I am not ignoring those points, as I think those points are valid. It makes sense, that building debian packages from the repository should behave in the same way as it does with the overall projects. Now, one could argue, that having multiple

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-12-20 Thread Roland Knall
We messed up in a sense, that we should have found an argument and final position on API compatibility. Not that it did not work out well, but it "happened" instead of being planned That was, what I meant with "messed up". I read their argument and I still disagree. It might be the best for

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-12-20 Thread Bálint Réczey
Roland Knall ezt írta (időpont: 2023. dec. 20., Sze, 17:06): > > Ok, I am not ignoring those points, as I think those points are valid. It > makes sense, that building debian packages from the repository should behave > in the same way as it does with the overall projects. Now, one could argue,

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-12-20 Thread Roland Knall
Ok, I am not ignoring those points, as I think those points are valid. It makes sense, that building debian packages from the repository should behave in the same way as it does with the overall projects. Now, one could argue, that having multiple packages could have been avoided in the beginning

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-12-20 Thread João Valverde
Keep in mind I am just a user but I'm not one to skip a good technical discussion. I'm ignoring your other points on purpose, there is only so much I can handle in one sitting. On 20/12/23 13:24, Bálint Réczey wrote: Having separate packages follows Debian packaging best practices and

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-12-20 Thread Roland Knall
Hi Balint It would be worth amending the Readme with this information, as well as the packaging section of the wiki, to ensure this information is not getting lost and future discussions may be avoided by pointing to it. kind regards Roland Am Mi., 20. Dez. 2023 um 14:24 Uhr schrieb Bálint

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-12-20 Thread Bálint Réczey
Hi, João Valverde ezt írta (időpont: 2023. nov. 27., H, 21:42): > > > > On 27/11/23 16:26, Jeff Morriss wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 11:54 AM João Valverde wrote: > > > > > > On 22/11/23 15:37, John Thacker wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 9:40 AM João Valverde wrote: > >> >

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-27 Thread João Valverde
On 27/11/23 16:26, Jeff Morriss wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 11:54 AM João Valverde wrote: On 22/11/23 15:37, John Thacker wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 9:40 AM João Valverde wrote: There are a myriad issues I have touched upon. To recap, in my opinion, if we

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-27 Thread Jeff Morriss
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 11:54 AM João Valverde wrote: > > On 22/11/23 15:37, John Thacker wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 9:40 AM João Valverde wrote: > >> >> There are a myriad issues I have touched upon. To recap, in my opinion, >> if we want to provide public shared libraries

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-23 Thread João Valverde
I kindly ask you to decide whether we should keep the Debian package as-is and explain the use-case for the current state of the Debian package in Wireshark, because it is not clear to me at all. Honestly, the situation kind of baffles me since it is not used by the Debian project and they

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-22 Thread Gerald Combs
I think this falls well within the scope of the steering committee, and would be a good first exercise. On 11/22/23 3:45 AM, Roland Knall wrote: Hi I would recommend that we bring this topic before the technical steering committee. As of right now, that committee needs to be formed in

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-22 Thread João Valverde
On 22/11/23 15:37, John Thacker wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 9:40 AM João Valverde wrote: There are a myriad issues I have touched upon. To recap, in my opinion, if we want to provide public shared libraries (libwireshark, wiretap, wsutil... for what I don't know) we should

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-22 Thread John Thacker
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 10:37 AM John Thacker wrote: > > I think moving the packaging assets to the packaging directory and telling > people to symbolically link it to build Debian, as we've been doing, is a > relatively minor imposition for the Debian folks, but my understanding is > that the

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-22 Thread John Thacker
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 9:40 AM João Valverde wrote: > > There are a myriad issues I have touched upon. To recap, in my opinion, if > we want to provide public shared libraries (libwireshark, wiretap, > wsutil... for what I don't know) we should do a better job of that > collectively as a

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-22 Thread João Valverde
On 22/11/23 14:39, João Valverde wrote: On 22/11/23 13:12, Pascal Quantin wrote: Hi Joao, Le mer. 22 nov. 2023 à 14:01, João Valverde a écrit : You are free to participate in the discussion or not. But I really don't care to wait for the new committee that is pretty much

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-22 Thread João Valverde
On 22/11/23 13:12, Pascal Quantin wrote: Hi Joao, Le mer. 22 nov. 2023 à 14:01, João Valverde a écrit : You are free to participate in the discussion or not. But I really don't care to wait for the new committee that is pretty much exactly the same as the old committee, as far

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-22 Thread João Valverde
On 22/11/23 13:23, Martin Mathieson via Wireshark-dev wrote: Pretty sure I'm not adding anything useful here, but I was only vaguely aware of debian packaging support.  If I'm sharing builds with colleagues, I use Windows packaging, or for Ubuntu we tend to set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX, build

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-22 Thread João Valverde
On 22/11/23 13:29, Pascal Quantin wrote: Le mer. 22 nov. 2023 à 14:25, João Valverde a écrit : On 22/11/23 13:12, Pascal Quantin wrote: Hi Joao, Le mer. 22 nov. 2023 à 14:01, João Valverde a écrit : You are free to participate in the discussion or not. But I

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-22 Thread Pascal Quantin
Le mer. 22 nov. 2023 à 14:25, João Valverde a écrit : > > On 22/11/23 13:12, Pascal Quantin wrote: > > Hi Joao, > > Le mer. 22 nov. 2023 à 14:01, João Valverde a écrit : > >> You are free to participate in the discussion or not. But I really don't >> care to wait for the new committee that is

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-22 Thread João Valverde
On 22/11/23 13:12, Pascal Quantin wrote: Hi Joao, Le mer. 22 nov. 2023 à 14:01, João Valverde a écrit : You are free to participate in the discussion or not. But I really don't care to wait for the new committee that is pretty much exactly the same as the old committee, as far as

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-22 Thread Martin Mathieson via Wireshark-dev
Pretty sure I'm not adding anything useful here, but I was only vaguely aware of debian packaging support. If I'm sharing builds with colleagues, I use Windows packaging, or for Ubuntu we tend to set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX, build the 'install' target and transfer it as a tarball. On Wed, Nov 22,

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-22 Thread João Valverde
So you want to discuss how to make it easier? We can do that. How do you feel about the CPack Debian Generator? On 22/11/23 12:38, Anders Broman wrote: Hi, I think that if you look at the commit history I have made my fair share of updating the list in the past. I was just trying to make

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-22 Thread Pascal Quantin
Hi Joao, Le mer. 22 nov. 2023 à 14:01, João Valverde a écrit : > You are free to participate in the discussion or not. But I really don't > care to wait for the new committee that is pretty much exactly the same as > the old committee, as far as I can tell. > > Anyway silence is another

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-22 Thread João Valverde
You are free to participate in the discussion or not. But I really don't care to wait for the new committee that is pretty much exactly the same as the old committee, as far as I can tell. Anyway silence is another Wireshark project classic. At least you tried to bring something to the

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-22 Thread Anders Broman
Hi, I think that if you look at the commit history I have made my fair share of updating the list in the past. I was just trying to make the point that some found it useful to be able to build Deb packages and it might be more fruitful to discuss how that could be made easier? I think today the

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-22 Thread Roland Knall
Hi I would recommend that we bring this topic before the technical steering committee. As of right now, that committee needs to be formed in January and this topic is exactly why we are going to have the committee in the first place. The process is in the final steps and should be finished by the

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-22 Thread João Valverde
Maybe you´d like to volunteer to maintain the Wireshark Debian assets? Since you've got the experience and actually use it? There are loads of lintian warnings waiting to be fixed, or there were until recently. Maybe you'd like to start there, and be more active staying on top of the

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-22 Thread João Valverde
Really important work there... nothing gets me out of bed like suppressing someone else's future potential needs using crappy tools and methodologies. This isn't a criticism of Debian. Use the Debian system if you like it, don't use it if you don't. It is a criticism of Debian in Wireshark,

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-21 Thread Anders Broman
Hi, I found it useful to be able to do Debian packages easily to provide internal installation packages and even ppa for Ubuntu. So I have been using the Debian build system. Best regards Anders Den tis 21 nov. 2023 15:48Roland Knall skrev: > As mentioned on the ticket - just putting it here as

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of Wireshark's Debian packaging scripts in the main repository

2023-11-21 Thread Roland Knall
As mentioned on the ticket - just putting it here as well - I am against dropping packaging/debian. But I am for having it underneath packaging, and not in the main directory, which is what the original change was about. I respect Joao's opinion as well as yours Balint. In this case here I think,