retitle 574284 wireshark: Provide -dbg package tags 574284 - wontfix + pending thanks
2010/3/17 Hilko Bengen <ben...@debian.org>: > * Bálint Réczey: > >> Wireshark's more than one million lines in C and the typical use case >> of analyzing untrusted network traffic makes hardening a must. Gdb-s >> current inability of handling PIE does not justify dropping this >> feature of hardening and hopefully 7.1 will be released soon with PIE >> support. > > Sure, that's a trade-off I can live with. Now that gdb 7.1-1 entered testing I've added the -dbg package based on your patch. It will be part of the next upload. >> I'm against providing -dbg because debugging even without -dbg is >> simple enough and -dbg would take additional space on the mirrors/take >> more time to build, etc. > > I'm not sure what you mean by "simple enough". I meant every bug submitted to BTS was easy to find and fix so far, so I did not really feel the need for a -dbg package. It also helps that I'm part of the upstream team, too. > The wireshark-dbg package I built locally is 16 MB (56 MB installed > size). I'm too lazy to measure build times here, but I'd expect that the > extra time needed for copying and packaging won't seriously hurt > anywhere. I multiplied that with the number of supported platforms, but you may be right, we don't have to be that thrifty. >> I'll reconsider this decision when upstream makes Wireshark more >> parallel, thus increasing the probability of having bugs hard to >> debug. > > For people who want to develop their own extensions (that's what > wireshark-dev is for, right?) a -dbg package will be very useful as soon > as we get a gdb with PIE support in Debian. Agreed. Cheers, Balint -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
