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FS#38571 - [ettercap] Add ethtool to depends or optdepends

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Evan Teitelman (paradoxial) - Sunday, 19 January 2014, 03:10 GMT
Last edited by Daniel Micay (thestinger) - Friday, 18 April 2014, 14:26 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Daniel Micay (thestinger)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

ettercap depends on ethtool for disabling interface offloads. See:

- https://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap/issues/333
- https://github.com/LocutusOfBorg/ettercap/commit/ece4e2c5e5101341732ba385f3e32ec4e623a16c

ethtool should be a dependency or optional dependency for ettercap.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Daniel Micay (thestinger)
Friday, 18 April 2014, 14:26 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  ettercap-0.8.0-3
Comment by Philip (nuc) - Monday, 14 April 2014, 13:27 GMT
Just wanted to create a bug report for this very issue -> I second this!
Comment by Daniel Micay (thestinger) - Friday, 18 April 2014, 14:24 GMT
There's also a missing curl (libcurl) dependency according to namcap so I'll kill both birds with one stone. I think it's likely dynamically loaded so it could be optional but I don't really feel like minimizing these tiny dependencies...

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