2009/6/18 Joerg Mayer
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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org