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Bug#539698: document removal of nessus, recommend switch to OpenVAS



Hi Felipe,

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?

Also, reading the thread, we may wait a bit until we are sure nobody
insist in continuing the maintenance of nessus.

Cheers,
-- 
Nekral



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