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From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Wu
Sent: den 14 mars 2017 17:33
To: Bálint Réczey <balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Ubuntu PPAs
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 05:23:02PM +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote:
>> 2017-03-14 14:28 GMT+01:00 Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 12:29:24AM +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I have created a separate PPA for backported dependencies of Wireshark:
>> >> https://launchpad.net/~wireshark-dev/+archive/ubuntu/wireshark-deps
>> >>
>> >> This would help people running internal builds of Wireshark. (Hi
>> >> Anders, sorry for the delay ;-))
>> >>
>> >> I plan removing the dependencies from the wireshark-dev/stable PPA
>> >> to remove redundancy:
>> >> https://launchpad.net/~wireshark-dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable
>> >
>> > Is it possible to express dependencies between PPAs? Otherwise you
>> > would run into missing dependency issues I think?
>>
>> Yes, I have already set the dependency relation for the PPAs, but I
>> would like to give them a try before I remove the redundant packages
>> from wireshark-dev/stable.
>
>You can add build dependencies to other PPAs, but will these propagate when users add a single archive (e.g. with add-apt-repository ppa:wireshark-dev/stable)?
>
>The Launchpad help pages and the +edit-dependencies page are not very clear on this:
>https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/BuildingASourcePackage#Dependencies
Would it make sense to add the latest libpcap stable too?
Regards
Anders
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