tags 353613 patch
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On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 01:22:29PM -0500, Ivan Nestlerode wrote:
> The latest ethereal NMU is linked against OpenSSL which is not legal.
> Ethereal is licensed under the GPL while the OpenSSL license has an 
> advertising
> clause that renders it incompatible with the GPL.

> Ethereal must be rebuilt to avoid doing this (I think to avoid this; you
> have to disable SNMP support since the SNMP library is what is bringing
> in OpenSSL's libcrypto.so).

> Note that this happened once in the past (version 0.10.3-1.0.1), and they 
> added
> a Build-Conflicts against libsnmp5-dev to keep it from reoccuring.  I think 
> the
> problems could be solved by adding another Build-Conflicts against
> libsnmp9-dev and rebuilding.

Right, attached is a patch for a follow-up NMU, adding the missing
Build-Conflicts with libsnmp-dev (which all the -dev packages provide).  NMU
on its way to incoming shortly.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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diff -u ethereal-0.10.13/debian/changelog ethereal-0.10.13/debian/changelog
--- ethereal-0.10.13/debian/changelog
+++ ethereal-0.10.13/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+ethereal (0.10.13-1.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * Build-conflict with libsnmp-dev, not just libsnmp5-dev, to prevent
+    accidental linkage with openssl.  Closes: #353613.
+
+ -- Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Sun, 19 Feb 2006 18:03:20 -0800
+
 ethereal (0.10.13-1.2) unstable; urgency=high
 
   * Non-maintainer upload.
diff -u ethereal-0.10.13/debian/control ethereal-0.10.13/debian/control
--- ethereal-0.10.13/debian/control
+++ ethereal-0.10.13/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Maintainer: Frederic Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 Standards-Version: 3.6.2.1
 Build-Depends: libgtk2.0-dev (>=2.4.0-0), libpcap0.8-dev, flex, libz-dev, 
dpatch, debhelper (>= 3.0), libtool, python, automake1.9, autoconf, 
autotools-dev, libadns1-dev, xsltproc, docbook-xsl (>= 1.64.1.0-0), 
libpcre3-dev, libcap-dev, bison
-Build-Conflicts: libsnmp4.2-dev, libsnmp5-dev
+Build-Conflicts: libsnmp4.2-dev, libsnmp-dev
 
 Package: ethereal-common
 Architecture: any

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