nmap: open points

[bengen@debian.org (Hilko Bengen)]

* Lukas Schwaighofer:

> 1. zenmap & root
>
> I think we should drop the gksu Recommends from zenmap and otherwise
> ignore the problem for now.  Since the desktop file uses
> "TryExec=su-to-root" everyone who does not have the menu package
> installed will not notice that it's missing?

Agreed.

> 2. repack
>
> I wanted to start on collecting copyright entries for the libraries
> removed by the repack.  I started with liblinear and looked at the
> Debian package.  It turns out they had to repack the source package
> because of the unknown license of the files included in the blas/
> directory. The same files are also included in the nmap sources in the
> libinear/blas/ directory?
>
> Now I'm pretty sure that we'll have to keep the repack even if upstream
> replaces their mswin32/IPExport.h with a free version? Under these
> circumstances I think it's actually better to keep removing all unused
> libraries in the repack, because:
> * It will ensure we do not accidentally link against them when upstream
>   updates their build system and makes a mistake.
> * Even after writing the debian/copyright file for nmap, keeping it
>   up-to-date with all these libraries included is a time consuming and
>   error-prone task that doesn't really serve a purpose.

Agreed.

> I'm stopping my effort to do that, unless someone else convinces me why
> this is really useful :) .

I for one don't. :-)

> If you're fine with ignoring the zenmap & root problem for now as
> suggested, please let me know and I'll make the final changes, do a few
> more checks and prepare the changelog for an upload.

Please do.

Thanks for your awesome work.

Cheers,
-Hilko