[Oisf-devel] about libhtp releases

[Will Metcalf]

> Since version 0.8.1 libhtp is now shipped with suricata (in particular,
> in the tarball).
> This causes a few problems for packaging suricata in distributions,
> especially for handling version numbers:
> - suricata 0.8.1 does not build with older libhtp
> - however, version of libhtp is not so clear:
>  configure states 0.2.X,
>  resulting so name is libhtp-0.2.so.1.0.2 while this number is lesser
>  than the website states (0.2.1)
>
> So which one is correct ? :)

Yes I agree this is confusing we will get it sorted out for our next release.

> Including libhtp in the same sources is not really a problem, but the
> problem is whether you always do releases of both projects at the same
> time or if you keep another release schema (in this case, maybe it would
> be nice to keep providing separate tarballs for libhtp even if you
> include one ..)

Redhat had the same concerns, so we will try to work something out for
future releases.

Regards,

Will



On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Pierre Chifflier <chifflier at edenwall.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since version 0.8.1 libhtp is now shipped with suricata (in particular,
> in the tarball).
> This causes a few problems for packaging suricata in distributions,
> especially for handling version numbers:
> - suricata 0.8.1 does not build with older libhtp
> - however, version of libhtp is not so clear:
>  configure states 0.2.X,
>  resulting so name is libhtp-0.2.so.1.0.2 while this number is lesser
>  than the website states (0.2.1)
>
> So which one is correct ? :)
>
> Including libhtp in the same sources is not really a problem, but the
> problem is whether you always do releases of both projects at the same
> time or if you keep another release schema (in this case, maybe it would
> be nice to keep providing separate tarballs for libhtp even if you
> include one ..)
>
> Regards,
> Pierre
>
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