Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Bug 3871 (Please include source for User's Guide in distributed sources)

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Balint Reczey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to bring some attention to the mentioned bug [1].
>
> The problem has been reported as a wishlist item several times to the 
> Debian BTS. Probably other distributions would be happy, too, to be able 
> package the documentation for Wireshark in an easy way.
>
> Since the bug did not receive any comment and I'm not able to fix it on 
> my own, I would like to ask you to comment on the problem, and if no one 
> objects, have the documentation included in the distributed sources.

This change makes sense to me; are there any objections?

Quick-n-easy (but dirty) fix is to add all the relevant docbook files to 
EXTRA_DIST in *toplevel* Makefile.am .

A longer term fix would be to use automake in the docbook 
directory--this has been started but not finished[1].

[1] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/docbook/Makefile.auto.am