nmap: help wanted?

[Lukas Schwaighofer]

Hi,

sorry for the slower-than-expected progress.  I'm still on it, so here
is an update.  Turns out you were right and it wasn't as much a low
hanging fruit as I had expected ;) .

I've split nmap into nmap and nmap-common as previously discussed
and pushed that part to git.  I've also investigated why we can't do
a proper autoreconf (this has come up before in a Debian bug [1] but was
never properly fixed).  I've written a patch which seems to solve our
problems and have sent it to nmap-dev for feedback [2] .

On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 20:54:43 +0200
Hilko Bengen <bengen at debian.org> wrote:

> > 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.

Is what you have done so far still useful (and do you still have it)?
Because of the newly added nmap-common, nmap will have to pass the NEW
queue on the next upload… I doubt that ftp-masters will let it through
with the current state of the debian/copyright file.

If you have any previous work that I don't have to duplicate that would
be most welcome.  Otherwise I'll be traveling on the weekend and hope
to get some (most?) of this done during bus rides.

Regards
Lukas

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/757456
[2] http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2017/q3/160