A while ago, I have linked an interesting story about the ethereal name change to wireshark. If you are a tethereal user (the console version of ethereal) and using Debian testing (like I am) you will notice that the Debian developers have pushed the new version with the changed name into Etch repositories. If for ethereal the correspondent is wireshark, for tethereal this is tshark (and not twireshark as you might have expected).
When you will install the new version this will remove the ethereal package and we will remain with wireshark.

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“Gerald Combs, founder of the Ethereal project–billed as the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer–caused a flurry of excitement among users and developers Wednesday when he announced on the Ethereal developers mailing list that he was changing jobs, moving to a new location, and taking the project and its core developers with him as he leaves.

“His initial announcement to the list provided some explanation…”

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