On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 01:18:36AM -0700, Fyodor wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 03:43:27PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > > We're 9 months later and we're still at 5.21 in Debian unstable. > I don't want to get embroiled in any Debian politics, but I will say, > on behalf of the Nmap Project, that we'd love to see Debian include a > modern version of Nmap. Version 5.21 is more than 2 years, and 10 > releases, behind the current version. In our CHANGELOG > (http://nmap.org/changelog.html), the first 3,138 lines describe > improvements and bug fixes we've made since 5.21.
> We're actually hoping to release a new "stable" version of Nmap within > the next couple weeks. It will be extremely similar to Nmap > 5.61TEST5, which can be obtained from http://nmap.org/download.html. > So if someone at Debian can make a 5.61TEST5 package, you will be > ready to package the upcoming Nmap stable just as soon as it comes > out. Debian could even be the first distro to do so! Sounds great. Nmap hasn't been getting the attention it deserves from me. I'll get some time to focus on this next week while I'm on a plane. > > PS: In case you did not pay attention, there's also a security bug to fix > > in this source package (see #663217). > I'll take a look at that too. Thanks. lamont -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
