Bug#564158: [libmlpcap-ocaml-dev] Invalid payload in callback function when reading a trace with pcap_loop

[Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org>]

Johan Mazel wrote:
> I think that the original code, the one that have been used to build the debian 
> package, is the one from this this website: 
> http://www.drugphish.ch/~jonny/mlpcap.html 
> <http://www.drugphish.ch/%7Ejonny/mlpcap.html>. I figured it because the file 
> mlpcap_0.9.orig.tar.gz from the page of the package 
> http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libmlpcap-ocaml-dev contains the same file 
> README than the mlpcap archive on the http://www.drugphish.ch/~jonny/mlpcap.html 
> <http://www.drugphish.ch/%7Ejonny/mlpcap.html>.
> The version from http://www.drugphish.ch/~jonny/mlpcap.html 
> <http://www.drugphish.ch/%7Ejonny/mlpcap.html> doesn't have this bug.
> 

The two urls seem identical.

> Is it possible that Sylvain le Gall (the maintainer of this package) added a 
> kind of protection to the Debian package that wopuld explain these two behaviours ?
> 

I don't think so. You can check applied patches at:

	http://patch-tracker.debian.org/package/mlpcap/0.9-15

Regards,

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