retitle 539698 [SQUEEZE] document removal of nessus, recommend switch to OpenVAS thanks
Hi Felipe, Thanks for your comments. On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 08:31:31PM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: > On 21-08-2009 17:33, Nicolas François wrote: > > > > On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 11:13:34PM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) > > wrote: > >> Javier [1]reported on debian-security the removal of Nessus and > >> recommended > >> interested users to switch to OpenVAS. Cyril asked if it should be > >> mentioned in > >> the release-notes and I just submit this bug report. :-) > >> > >> 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2009/08/msg00005.html > > > > Should we recommend this when user upgrade from Etch to Lenny (and inform > > then during Lenny -> Squeeze), or should we just inform users during Lenny > > -> Squeeze? > > Nessus is still available on all Debian "distros", I don't > think it is worth to be added to Etch's RN, but certainly it deserves > a not on Squeezes' RN. > > But your question is quite interesting, I don't really know > what happened in the past regarding RN when such changes happened and > could become an useful piece of information, even for migrations > oldstable -> stable. I was fearing that Lenny's nessus was useless and gave a misleading sense of security. Re-reading the thread makes me think that it is not the case (but will probably be the case in Squeeze). > > Also, reading the thread, we may wait a bit until we are sure nobody > > insist in continuing the maintenance of nessus. > > Of course, this is one of the problems related to Release Notes, > it doesn't really matter *right* *now* what's the outcome of the > discussion, in 8 to 16 months, Nessus may be back or may be totally > dead. :) I'm just tagging the bug for SQUEEZE, and we will see later. > PS: I was unsure if I should copy you or not, so I cc:ed, let me know > if you prefer I remove it next time. I'm receiving RN's bugs, and I do not care about duplicate emails;) Cheers, -- Nekral -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
