Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (471 mails)

[Cristian Morales Vega <cmorve69@xxxxxxxx>]

2009/6/18 Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 03:01:52PM +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > Maybe it's a good idea filling bugs to maintainers so they can be aware
> > > of this problem.
> > I don't think it's a bug if a package doesn't work out of the box with
> > different linker flags.
>
> I think the opposite way. Being involved in Wireshark development I
> have to go and check all the big distros for changes made, find out
> why and by whom and then apply what appears to be useful.
> <rant>
> It's *really* annoying! Why can't the package maintainers open a bug
> with Wireshark for every patch that isn't 100% distro specific and
> let the project maintainers decide what is acceptable and what isn't?

Seriously? Because I think "now I will have to open an account in its
bug tracker and...". When I'm not busy I report upstream, but when I
have anything else to do the last thing I want is open yet another
account in yet another bug tracker.
My fault, but... perhaps OpenID will make people report more to upstream.

> While I'm ranting anyway: Each and every patchfile that is part of
> a source package should contain a description and information on the
> author(s) - how am I supposed to give credit correctly otherwise when
> I decide that a patch is useful? Normally figuring out the credits
> part is more work than finding out whether to apply a patch or not.
> </rant>

I don't really mind about getting credit for some minor patches. But I
suppose it's important to upstream because of legalities.
Anyway, Wireshark 1.2.0 builds with --as-needed because of the new
behavior in binutils, but it still has a problem that triggers if you
use pre-2.20 binutils. The patch is available at
https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file?file=wireshark-1.2.0-asneeded.patch&package=wireshark&project=openSUSE%3AFactory
and I'm the author.
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