ethereal needs libpcap.so.0.8.1

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Tue Apr 20 11:51:19 UTC 2004


libpcap is not really a dynamic library and the versioning of this 
library does not ensure ABI compatibility for minor version changes.

It was a static library and we made it a dynamic one, to prevent 
rebuilding of all packages, if a security update is necessary.

Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hi Phil,
> 
> 
>>>.Package ethereal needs libpcap.so.0.8.1, this is not available.
>>>Package ethereal-gnome needs libpcap.so.0.8.1, this is not available.
> 
> 
>>I'll rebuild ethereal today, was on vacation last week.
> 
> 
> Could you explain to me why ethereal needs rebuilding if the spec file
> only states Requires libpcap >= 0.6? How and why does this static
> dependency to libpcap.so.0.8.1 gets created? Why doesn't libpcap-0.8.3
> satisfy this dependency? Any way to avoid this static version dependency
> getting created?
> 
> In general, it looks like a lot of work to have to recreate all binaries
> when a library gets updated.
> 
> Leonard.
> 





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