Re: Wireshark in wheezy-lts

[Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>]

Hi All,

2016-05-23 12:36 GMT+02:00 Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>:
> Hi all,
>
> On 23/05/16 11:23, Markus Koschany wrote:
>> Am 21.05.2016 um 16:31 schrieb Balint Reczey: 
>> Dear LTS Team, 
>>
>> I would like to suggest (and volunteer for) back-porting
>> jessie-security's wireshark version to wheezy-lts.
>
> FYI, Steffen Moeller is also currently working on a security update for
>> wireshark (dla-needed.txt). Maybe you might want to coordinate your >
> efforts with Steffen.

We started the conversation privately but I proposed bringing the
question to the list since switching to a different upstream version is
not just the minimal fix which is usually preferred.

> and I very much accept that the expertise is with Balint, here.
> Please use me whenever I could be helpful and otherwise I just
> step back.

Thank you, I think with back-porting Jessie's version we get much
better results with less work.
If you don't mind I reassign the DLA to me then.

>
> We had agreed on me re-uploading (as a volunteer)
> version 2.0.3 of wireshark to wheezy-backports-sloppy. I do
> so today if you do not prefer otherwise.

As I confirmed earlier I'm perfectly OK with the upload.

Cheers,
Balint