nmap: help wanted?

[Hilko Bengen]

* Lukas Schwaighofer:

> 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 ;) .

Yeah, there is quite a bit of history to the project -- and it shows.

> I've split nmap into nmap and nmap-common as previously discussed
> and pushed that part to git.

Just a note: I think that Depends: nmap-common (= ${source:Version}) may
be broken by binNMUs (but I'm not sure about that).

> 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] .

Thank you. Looks good to me. What exactly prevented autoreconf from
working?

> Is what you have done so far still useful (and do you still have it)?

I still have a patch lying aound in my git stash, but it's not really
useful. I must have lost my enthusiasm rather quickly. :-/

However, I wouldn't expect ftp-master to raise a problem about the
copyright file, so let's just upload as soon as you finalize your
changes for any other outstanding technical issues.

Cheers,
-Hilko