Bug 882732

Summary: Wireshark 1.8.15 maintenance release
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 12.3 Reporter: Andreas Stieger <Andreas.Stieger>
Component: NetworkAssignee: E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: bwiedemann, cyliu
Version: Final   
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Hardware: All   
OS: openSUSE 12.3   
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Bug Depends on: 882731    
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Description Andreas Stieger 2014-06-13 23:12:32 UTC 
Dear maintenance team,

Wireshark 1.8.15 is the last release in the 1.8.x series. From 
From https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.15.html

  Wireshark 1.8 will reach end of life on June 21, 2014. This is the last
  official release of that branch. If you are still running Wireshark 1.8 or
  earlier we strongly recommend upgrading to Wireshark 1.12 or 1.10.

The update in bug 882731 will offer Wireshark 1.8.15 for openSUSE 12.3. Going forward, as per http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Maintenance_policy, please approve the version update to the Wireshark 1.10.x series for openSUSE 12.3.

I give the following reasons:
* soon discontinued and use dis-encouraged by upstream
* non-trivial back-ports of fixes
* almost a leaf package (kismet)
* 1.10.x is known to build for and work on 12.3 via network:utilities

Thanks,
Andreas
Comment 1 Benjamin Brunner 2014-06-16 14:10:50 UTC 
Thanks for your submission. We started an update, see openSUSE:Maintenance:2879.
Comment 2 Bernhard Wiedemann 2014-07-24 13:31:12 UTC 
update is released