Missing dependency in wireshark-dev

Bug #1960334 reported by Cristian Morales Vega
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Bug Description

wireshark-dev-3.4.7-1~exp1 from Ubuntu 21.10 includes the file /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wireshark/cmake/WiresharkTargets.cmake. I don't really understand what's the difference between wireshark-dev and libwireshark-dev. cmake/WiresharkConfig.cmake and pkgconfig/wireshark.pc have basically the same function, but they are in different packages? But in any case, WiresharkTargets.cmake says:

    add_library(wsutil SHARED IMPORTED)

    set_target_properties(wsutil PROPERTIES
      INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES "/usr/include;/usr/include"
      INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES "dl;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmodule-2.0.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so;m"
      INTERFACE_SYSTEM_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES "/usr/include;/usr/include"
    )

But wireshark-dev doesn't depend on anything providing /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so or /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so. I had to manually install libgnutls28-dev and libgcrypt20-dev to build my Wireshark dissector with a cmake build system (the epan target depends on the wsutil target).

Probably WiresharkTargets.cmake is wrong, the dependency doesn't really exist, but as long as it says it's there the package metadata should probably have it too.

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Cristian Morales Vega (reddwarf) wrote :

FWIW the Fedora 35 Wireshark 3.6.1 package says the more correct

    # Create imported target wsutil
    add_library(wsutil SHARED IMPORTED)

    set_target_properties(wsutil PROPERTIES
      INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES "/usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so;/usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so"
    )

instead of what the Ubuntu 21.10 Wireshark 3.4.7 package says

    # Create imported target wsutil
    add_library(wsutil SHARED IMPORTED)

    set_target_properties(wsutil PROPERTIES
      INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES "/usr/include;/usr/include"
      INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES "dl;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmodule-2.0.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so;m"
      INTERFACE_SYSTEM_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES "/usr/include;/usr/include"
    )

I have not checked where the difference comes from (wireshark version, cmake version or something else).

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Balint Reczey (rbalint) wrote :

Hi Christian,

The new 3.6.0-based package in jammy-proposed does not list those extra dependencies in WiresharkTargets.cmake.
I'll upload 3.6.2 to Debian soon which may migrate in jammy.

Changed in wireshark (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Balint Reczey (rbalint)
Changed in wireshark (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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