FS#5969 - Wireshark should include ethereal in its name/description.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Tal Levy (levytal) - Saturday, 09 December 2006, 14:55 GMT
Last edited by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Thursday, 10 May 2007, 17:43 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I think that the wireshark package should include the word ethereal in its name or description. I searched all the repos for ethereal and found nothing and then took quite a bit of time to write a pkgbuild for ethereal and compile using information and sources from ethereal.com, for upload to aur. All this and then I found out totally by accident, by reading this page http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards, that ethereal existed in the current repo under a new name. I am sure that the majority of users know ethereal by "ethereal" and not by "wireshark".
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Closed by  Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Thursday, 10 May 2007, 17:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 09 December 2006, 19:56 GMT
IMHO this is not really useful. Package renames are not rare thing in OSS world. Users should to learn new name anyway.
I'll let maintainer decide, however.
Comment by Tal Levy (levytal) - Saturday, 09 December 2006, 21:23 GMT
Package renames might not be rare but if the original software is still available under the original name from the original site (from ethereal.com), one has no reason to suspect a name change in the repo. It's not like it was mentioned on the ethereal main page, so I should suspect something. Maybe kde changed its name and you didn't know?
Comment by Alessio Bolognino (mOLOk) - Tuesday, 02 January 2007, 21:02 GMT
I agree with levytal, adding "(formerly Ethereal)" at the end of the pkgdesc isn't dangerous :)

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