Re: Bug#630893: Move to non-free?
Maybe I'm confused but if ripdump.c is the only bad file, then your throwing several apps (including call) into non-free just because listen happens to decode rip packets with a non-free routine.
It would make more sense to me remove the ripdump.c and to #ifdef out the portion of udpdump.c that calls it:
case RIP_PORT:
lprintf(T_TCPHDR, "\n");
rip_dump(data, length);
break;
and let it fall through to the default data_dump.
or if you really want a rip dumper then grab ripdump.c from www.ka9q.net/code/ka9qnos which is pre non-free change and update it to work with listen and possibly add rip V2.
or get the ax25 patches into wireshark and then listen might be obsolete.
Just to explain, my background:
Haven't played with packet much recently but I would like to again soon.
Listen and call were both quite useful to me.
Never really had the option to play with IP over AX25 so didn't need it decoded.
I'm not a debian developer so I can't do this myself.
And I don't know the process for removing a bad file from a package.
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:02:43 +0200
Samuel Fogh <gaffa@users.sf.net> wrote:
> So shouldn't we just take a pragmatic approach and move it to non-free,
> with a changelog notice pointing to this bug then?
>
> What can I do to make it happen?
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