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Bug#679041: transition: wireshark



Hi,

On 26/06/2012 00:10, Bálint Réczey wrote:

I'd like to upload the latest version of wireshark to unstable.
Updating from 1.6.8 to 1.8.0 brings a new ABI with a new soname for
all the libs. Having Wireshark 1.8.x in Wheezy is important because
upstream's support for 1.6.x ends on June 7, 2013 [1] and Wireshark
needs regular security updates.


Thanks for letting us know. Unfortunately, we think that this update
came a tad late because we are >that< near to freeze and the update
seems quite large.

About the security concerns, as far as I can see, updating wireshark to
1.8 in Wheezy would not buy us more than a year. AFAIK, the security
team didn't raise any concerns about this package in the past. Are there
any other concerns with the 1.6.8 release besides the security aspect?

Regards,

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