Bug#739975: Ettercap version 0.8.0 out
Package: ettercap-graphical Version: 0.8.0 Hi, Since some time, a new version of ettercap has been released. It contains features and bugfixes I currently need. I checked the plans of the Debian package by checking the version in unstable. But in unstable and even in experimental a quite old version seem to be chased and no signs of providing a newer version. Is it possible to push for the new ettercap version in unstable or experimental that I can get rid of the manual upgrade processing and come back to the normal mode of leveraging the apt packaging repositories in near future? I heared that Kali Linux has already a newer version of ettercap and they're also using apt packaging system. But I'd like to stay with Debian. Regards Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#739975: Ettercap version 0.8.0 out
Thanks for your note. Yes, 0.8.0 was released some time ago. The kali patches are merged into the Debian packaging branch in git://github.com/barak/ettercap and I tagged kali/0.8.0-0kali1 with a snapshot of the kali sources. If you want to use the kali version you can still stay with Debian. You should be able to simply install the kali .deb file in a Debian system. Or failing that, just build the binary .deb files from source. (If you don't know how to do that ask by private email and I'll explain.) The reason 0.8.0 hasn't made it into Debian is that there are some nasty problems. In version 0.8.0 much of ettercap is broken out into a private shared library libettercap.so, This links to a zillion things it shouldn't, in particular X libraries, even though it is loaded by the text-only ettercap executable. It also causes instability when the same libettercap.so is linked by both the graphical and textual executables. Upstream is aware of the issues and there's been some work on them, but (due in large measure to my own lack of time) a proper package of 0.8.0 has not yet been generated. You can see the work in the above git repo, and I'd welcome patches! Cheers, --Barak. -- Barak A. Pearlmutter Hamilton Institute Dept Comp Sci, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~barak/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#739975: Ettercap version 0.8.0 out
Il Lunedì 24 Febbraio 2014 16:33, Barak A. Pearlmutter ba...@cs.nuim.ie ha scritto: Hi Barak and Alex, Thanks for your note. Yes, 0.8.0 was released some time ago. The kali patches are merged into the Debian packaging branch in git://github.com/barak/ettercap and I tagged kali/0.8.0-0kali1 with a snapshot of the kali sources. If you want to use the kali version you can still stay with Debian. You should be able to simply install the kali .deb file in a Debian system. Or failing that, just build the binary .deb files from source. (If you don't know how to do that ask by private email and I'll explain.) The reason 0.8.0 hasn't made it into Debian is that there are some nasty problems. In version 0.8.0 much of ettercap is broken out into a private shared library libettercap.so, This links to a zillion things it shouldn't, in particular X libraries, even though it is loaded by the text-only ettercap executable. It also causes instability when the same libettercap.so is linked by both the graphical and textual executables. This has been fixed. Upstream is aware of the issues and there's been some work on them, but (due in large measure to my own lack of time) a proper package of 0.8.0 has not yet been generated. Fixed (I think) You can see the work in the above git repo, and I'd welcome patches! I opened a Pull Request for this. Some of the patches, are already been cherry picked from you in your master branch This patch starts from the kali branch that is exactly as the 0.8.0 version, and merges kali, your and my patches into a single commit https://github.com/barak/ettercap/pull/8 Can you please review it? It should be fine right now thanks Gianfranco (who would be glad to comaintain the package) Cheers, --Barak. -- Barak A. Pearlmutter Hamilton Institute Dept Comp Sci, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~barak/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#739975: Ettercap version 0.8.0 out
Thanks for the patch. Sad to say ... it didn't really fix most of the problems, and the debian build process now has its own tricks for putting the delta from upstream into a patch file instead of representing them multiple ways in the same git repo (once as commits, the other time as quilt patches in debian/patch/*.) But I picked out one or two little fixes, and fixed all the other pending problems pretty much by brute force (chrpath --delete) and I'm uploading the result to debian now! Please do test it if you have a chance; if you find any problems I'll try to upload a fix quickly. Cheers, --Barak. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
