Re: Ubuntu PPAs

[Anders Broman <anders.broman () ericsson com>]

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From: wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of Peter Wu
Sent: den 14 mars 2017 17:33
To: Bálint Réczey <balint () balintreczey hu>
Cc: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev () wireshark org>
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Ubuntu PPAs

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 05:23:02PM +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> > 2017-03-14 14:28 GMT+01:00 Peter Wu <peter () lekensteyn nl>:
> > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 12:29:24AM +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have created a separate PPA for backported dependencies of Wireshark:
> > > > https://launchpad.net/~wireshark-dev/+archive/ubuntu/wireshark-deps
> > > >
> > > > This would help people running internal builds of Wireshark. (Hi 
> > > > Anders, sorry for the delay ;-))
> > > >
> > > > I plan removing the dependencies from the wireshark-dev/stable PPA 
> > > > to remove redundancy:
> > > > https://launchpad.net/~wireshark-dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable
> > >
> > > Is it possible to express dependencies between PPAs? Otherwise you 
> > > would run into missing dependency issues I think?
> >
> > Yes, I have already set the dependency relation for the PPAs, but I 
> > would like to give them a try before I remove the redundant packages 
> > from wireshark-dev/stable.
>
> You can add build dependencies to other PPAs, but will these propagate when users add a single archive (e.g. with 
> add-apt-repository ppa:wireshark-dev/stable)?
>
> The Launchpad help pages and the +edit-dependencies page are not very clear on this:
> https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/BuildingASourcePackage#Dependencies


Would it make sense to add the latest libpcap stable too?
Regards
Anders
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