Control: tags -1 confirmed Hi Olaf,
2016-01-18 1:19 GMT+01:00 Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwis...@avasys.jp>: ... > Dear Maintainer, > > I just switched from the Qt version (see 811036) and was slightly > surprised there was no wireshark command, only a wireshark-gtk. > > It'd be nice to have a wireshark command no matter which version is > installed. This shouldn't be too difficult using the alternatives > mechanism. This has been raised before in #80575: ... >> Wouldn't it make sense if the meta-package wireshark >> depends on either wireshark-qt | wireshark-gtk >> (or vice versa)? :-) > Sure, I'll fix that in the next upload. > >> >> And that if both are installed, root can configure >> via update-alternatives which one should be invoked >> with just "wireshark" ... > Many members of the Wireshark development team would like to phase out > the GTK+ UI completely and this may happen before the Stretch release, > in Wireshark 2.2. > I have not implemented the alternatives system based switching to > migrating away from it in the next major release, but I'm not absolutely > sure if it is the best strategy and I'm open to implementing it if I get > more feedback from users, for example here. I still think having the alternatives system in place would be nice and if we release Stretch with the GTK+ version I'll consider implementing it or merging a patch (hint, hint ;-)) implementing it. Cheers, Balint
