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Bug#690655: marked as done (RM: openvas2 [wheezy] -- RoM; abandoned-upstream)

Your message dated Sat, 08 Dec 2012 23:57:50 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#690655: RM: openvas2 [wheezy] -- RoM; abandoned-upstream
has caused the Debian Bug report #690655,
regarding RM: openvas2 [wheezy] -- RoM; abandoned-upstream
to be marked as done.

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Package: release.debian.org
Version: N/A
Priority: grave
Tags: rm

I would like to request the Release Managers to remove *all* of the OpenVAS
2.x packages from the current testing distribution. This includes the
following packages:

- libopenvas2 /  libopenvas2-dev (version 2.0.4-2.1)
- libopenvasnasl2 / libopenvasnasl2-dev (version 2.0.2-2.1)
- openvas-client (version 2.0.5-1.1)
- openvas-plugins-base / openvas-plugins-dfsg (version 1:20100705-2)
- openvas-server / openvas-server-dev (version 2.0.3-6)

In addition, please also remove the following package:

 - harden-remoteaudit: it depends on openvas-server (I have sent 
   a bug to the package to update this dependency)

Support for OpenVAS 2 was discontinued last year [2]. Providing
OpenVAS 2 to our Debian 'stable' users in our upcoming release is not
really a good idea. Even though the scanner/client works 'as it is',
users will not be able to download new plugins for this release from
the OpenVAs servers and it will not be possible for them to find
"recent" vulnerabilities in hosts they scan.

For the last  2 years I have provided experimental versions of OpenVAS
3, which seem to have not received to much attention from users. In
any case since that version is also going to be discontinued upstream.
Since the latest OpenVAS release is version 5 [1]  (released May this
year) I will work towards providing OpenVAS 5 in our unstable
distribution. And, once available, will try to make backports
available for Wheezy too.

Removing the OpenVAS 2 packages from testing simplifies handling
upgrades to the newer version and also installations of the backports
of OpenVAS 5 packages in Wheezy.

Regards

Javier

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On 2012-12-08 05:00, Niels Thykier wrote:
> [...]
> 
> I have added a removal hint for these packages (except
> openvas-plugins-base, which wasn't in testing).  I also added RC bugs
> against packages that didn't have one already to ensure they don't
> re-enter testing by accident.  For reference that would be #695439,
> #695440 and #695441.
> 
>[...]

... and packages removed, closing.

Thanks,
~Niels

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