nmap: help wanted?

Hilko Bengen bengen at debian.org
Sun Aug 27 18:54:43 UTC 2017


* Lukas Schwaighofer:

> thanks for the fast reply and I'm glad you're open to
> contributions :) .  I've pushed a few changes to git already, I'm
> always happy about comments and/or corrections. I  will continue to
> work on this in the upcoming week.

Awesome, thank you. The changes so far look good.

> I started on converting the copyright to the machine readable DEP-5
> format.  Due to the high amount of other code included in the source
> package, this turned out to be a quite tedious task…

Yeah, I started on that at some point but could not bring myself to
finishing the task.

> I have one lintian warning which I'm not sure if we should act upon:
> "arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share 19613kB 84%". Do you think it's
> worth creating a nmap-common (architecture-independent) package for the
> contents of /usr/share/nmap to reduce the size?

Yes, especially the NSE script collection has grown quite substantially,
so it may make sense to put /usr/share/nmap into a nmap-common package.

Cheers,
-Hilko



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