Bug 2400860

Summary: Review Request: bettercap - The Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, HID, CAN-bus, IPv4 and IPv6 networks reconnaissance and MITM attacks
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Robert-André Mauchin 🐧 <eclipseo>
Component: Package ReviewAssignee: Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Robert-André Mauchin 🐧 2025-10-01 16:57:25 UTC
Spec URL: https://eclipseo.fedorapeople.org/for-review/bettercap.spec
SRPM URL: https://eclipseo.fedorapeople.org/for-review/bettercap-2.41.4-1.fc43.src.rpm

Description:
The Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, HID, CAN-bus, IPv4 and IPv6 networks
reconnaissance and MITM attacks.

Fedora Account System Username: eclipseo

Comment 1 Fedora Review Service 2025-10-01 17:53:08 UTC
Copr build:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/build/9637070
(succeeded)

Review template:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/@fedora-review/fedora-review-2400860-bettercap/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/09637070-bettercap/fedora-review/review.txt

Found issues:

- A package with this name already exists. Please check https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/bettercap
  Read more: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Naming/#_conflicting_package_names

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Comment 2 Phil Wyett 2026-03-02 11:23:00 UTC
Hi,

Sorry that nobody has had a chance to look at your submission. I will take a first look.

Build local:

RPM build warnings:
    /builddir/build/SPECS/bettercap.spec line 40: autopatch: no matching patches in range
    File listed twice: /usr/share/licenses/bettercap

Build COPR:

============================ rpmlint session starts ============================
rpmlint: 2.8.0
configuration:
    /usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/rpmlint/configdefaults.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora-spdx-licenses.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/scoring.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/users-groups.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/warn-on-functions.toml
rpmlintrc: [PosixPath('/tmp/tmp5xg8ha0v')]
checks: 32, packages: 2

bettercap.src: E: summary-too-long The Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, HID, CAN-bus, IPv4 and IPv6 networks reconnaissance and MITM attacks
bettercap.x86_64: E: summary-too-long The Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, HID, CAN-bus, IPv4 and IPv6 networks reconnaissance and MITM attacks
bettercap.spec: W: specfile-warning warning: /tmp/rpmlint.bettercap-2.41.4-1.fc45.src.rpm.epc56b13/bettercap.spec line 40: autopatch: no matching patches in range
bettercap.x86_64: W: no-manual-page-for-binary bettercap
bettercap.spec: W: invalid-url Source1: bettercap-2.41.4-vendor.tar.bz2
bettercap.x86_64: W: files-duplicate /usr/share/licenses/bettercap/vendor/github.com/evilsocket/islazy/LICENSE.md /usr/share/licenses/bettercap/LICENSE.md:/usr/share/licenses/bettercap/vendor/github.com/bettercap/nrf24/LICENSE.md:/usr/share/licenses/bettercap/vendor/github.com/bettercap/recording/LICENSE.md
bettercap.x86_64: W: files-duplicate /usr/share/licenses/bettercap/vendor/modules.txt /usr/share/licenses/bettercap/modules.txt
 2 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 2 errors, 5 warnings, 43 filtered, 2 badness; has taken 2.3 s

* I would personally add 'BuildRequires: pkg-config'.

Regards

Phil

Comment 3 Package Review 2026-04-02 00:45:20 UTC
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The ticket submitter failed to clear the NEEDINFO flag in a month.
As per https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_stalled_package_reviews
we consider this ticket as DEADREVIEW and proceed to close it.