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Bug 394949 - net-wireless/wifiscanner lastrite request (was: net-wireless/wifiscanner-1.0.1-r2 no longer configures against net-analyzer/wireshark-1.6.4)
Summary: net-wireless/wifiscanner lastrite request (was: net-wireless/wifiscanner-1.0....
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it
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Whiteboard: Pending Removal: 2012-12-20
Keywords: PMASKED
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-12-16 16:21 UTC by Clemmitt M. Sigler
Modified: 2012-12-25 13:40 UTC (History)
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Description Clemmitt M. Sigler 2011-12-16 16:21:07 UTC 
Hi,

The old, outdated application net-wireless/wifiscanner-1.0.1-r2 can't configure against the newer net-analyzer/wireshark-1.6.4.  wifiscanner's configure script requires the function libpcap_open be provided by libwiretap.so.  In ver. 1.6.4, libwiretap.so only provides libpcap_open as a local function (when I build it locally from tarball with default configure), whereas ver. 1.4.9 provided it as a global function.

See also Bug 288015.  I suppose it may be time to retire this program, as it's still dead upstream, now for 3 years; time for tree cleaners/last rites?  TIA.

Clemmitt
Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2012-10-28 12:18:08 UTC 
I agree, thanks for reporting, for any other package do you think is subject to be retired, feel free to mail treecleaner@gentoo.org to get faster responses
Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2012-12-25 13:40:37 UTC 
dropped