Comment 3 for bug 2006557

Apparently the libpcap Debian maintainer rejected adding the new libibverbs dependency:

> So far I've resisted adding extra binary dependencies to
> libpcap and this seems like a very specialized use case.

We could in principle add the dependency via an Ubuntu delta (the library is in main), but given that the package is currently a sync I believe that we need a use case that is compelling enough to justify the increased maintenance that comes with carrying a delta.

@Amir: can you please elaborate a bit more on the use case for which you need rdma sniffing? Is the feature going to be generally useful?

Once we get a better picture on why the feature is useful, I suggest trying once again to get it enabled in Debian by providing additional information to the Debian maintainer (the linked Debian bug doesn't explain much).