The plan involving branching from versions in Ubuntu only like 1.6.x and 1.10.x would involve a lot of manpower which did not seem to be available in the last 2 years and unlikely to become available .
Fake-syncing the security changes from Debian is on the other hand needs only a little effort on Ubuntu's side. The only reverse dependency of wireshark is netexpect and it has been removed from post-vivid releases thus I would like to propose that path instead. I'll prepare the packages in a PPA for testing. For the record I already maintain a backport PPA of the latest stable Wireshark packages from Debian unstable/experimental to all supported Ubuntu releases: https://launchpad.net/~wireshark-dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable/+packages Those packages have the latest security fixes and are known to work well. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1397091 Title: [Security] Update Wireshark in Precise, Trusty, and Utopic to include relevant security patches. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wireshark/+bug/1397091/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
