Mattia: > > I have some problems with snort on debian that are already been reported but > the current maintainer seems not active. > For what I found online it seems that snort is the most used IDS, so I find > it quite odd that it's not maintained in Debian.
Looking at popcon data[1] it appears that far less than 1% of Debian
installations have Snort installed, so I would not say that it is a very
high profile package. Additionally, the popularity of a package does not
necessarily translate into the quality of package maintenance in Debian.
In the end someone needs to step up and take over maintenance. Debian as
a project has no way to enforce that.
> Is this still true? Do you
> guys use it? Or it's better to move to other software?
> Can somebody please point me to an external source that has an up to date
> snort debian package? I've found a lot of documentation online but it's
> either quite old or provides instructions to build it from source.
I don't know much about Debian packaging, but I would think it should
not be too hard to package the most recent version (2.9.14.1) for
Debian. The version in Debian is 2.9.7.0.5 (from oldstable to sid …).
J.
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