[Wishlist] include Wireshark 1.2 in Ubuntu

Bug #388384 reported by Mathias Menzer
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: wireshark

Please include Wireshark 1.2 in Ubuntu

Source: http://media-2.cacetech.com/wireshark/src/wireshark-1.2.0.tar.bz2
License: GPLv2

New in this release:
- Display filters now autocomplete.
- A 64-bit Windows (x64) installer is now provided.
- Support for the c-ares resolver library has been added. It has many advantages over ADNS.
- Many new protocol dissectors and capture file formats have been added.
- Macintosh OS X support has been improved.
- GeoIP database lookups.
- OpenStreetMap + GeoIP integration.
- Improved Postscript(R) print output.
- The preference handling code is now much smarter about changes.
- Support for Pcap-ng, the next-generation capture file format.
- Support for process information correlation via IPFIX.
- Column widths are now saved.
- The last used configuration profile is now saved.
- Protocol preferences are changeable from the packet details context menu.
- Support for IP packet comparison.
- Capinfos now shows the average packet rate

Tags: upgrade

Related branches

tags: added: upgrade
removed: needs-packaging
Changed in wireshark (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
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Jonas Pedersen (jonasped) wrote :

Can see it is only a couple of days ago it was released. If it not ends up in Debian archives in the next couple of days I might try to put something together.

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Jonas Pedersen (jonasped) wrote :

First version of wireshark 1.2.0 is currently being build. When completed it is available in my PPA. Can someone please test it when build is finished. It is being build for both Jaunty and Karmic.

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Jonas Pedersen (jonasped) wrote :

Build completed on all architectures except for LPIA. Please test. I will try to look at the build error later today.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package wireshark - 1.2.0~repack1-0ubuntu1

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wireshark (1.2.0~repack1-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream release 1.2.0 (LP: #388384), repacked to remove upstream
    debian directory.
  * Drop debian/patches/20_sigpipe.dpatch: taken upstream.
  * debian/patches/19_umask.dpatch: refresh.
  * debian/wireshark-common.{shlibs,files}: add libwsutil.so.
  * debian/wireshark-common.files: include randpkt (LP: #222715).
  * debian/{rules,control}: add use of GeoIP, SMI MIB.

 -- Kees Cook <email address hidden> Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:43:25 -0700

Changed in wireshark (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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