Thank you for the considerations made in my review and excellent work
with your review. I learned a lot from your work.

waiting for a sponsor to upload.


On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 2:22 AM Boian Bonev <bbo...@ipacct.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> First thing to change (after the missing binary) is the description - the
> tool
> no longer executes and parses tcpdump's output, instead it uses libpcap
> directly to get the packets. The man page needs the same correction.
>
> The build completely ignores the default hardening and optimization flags.
> This
> breaks both cross and reproducible builds.
>
> tcpdump should be removed from Depends.
>
> Isn't it better to depend on libpcap-dev? (libpcap0.7-dev isn't in any
> supported release)
>
> Current standards are 4.6.2.
>
> d/copyright may benefit from a DEP5 conversion.
>
> Now I see that there are 3 open bugs, maybe at least two or even all can be
> fixed by this upload?
>
> I have several patches for this tool hanging around since 2013, I did try
> to
> send them to upstream back then but they either got lost or ignored. All of
> them are fixing behavioral bugs.
>
> I think it is a good idea to add these patches while doing the QA upload. I
> need to add the proper headers and will post after an ACK.
>
> --
> With best regards,
> b.
>

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