Comment 19 for bug 1397091

The plan involving branching from versions in Ubuntu only like 1.6.x and 1.10.x would involve a lot of manpower which did not seem to be available in the last 2 years and unlikely to become available .

Fake-syncing the security changes from Debian is on the other hand needs only a little effort on Ubuntu's side. The only reverse dependency of wireshark is netexpect and it has been removed from post-vivid releases thus I would like to propose that path instead.

I'll prepare the packages in a PPA for testing.

For the record I already maintain a backport PPA of the latest stable Wireshark packages from Debian unstable/experimental to all supported Ubuntu releases:
https://launchpad.net/~wireshark-dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable/+packages

Those packages have the latest security fixes and are known to work well.