Re: scap-security-guide

[Justin Andrusk <jra@andrusk.com>]

Greetings,

I would be willing to maintain the package, but you do need to be approved as a Debian developer to do so, right? I'm not an approved Debian developer, but I have years of experience hardening Linux systems using primarily the CIS Benchmarks.

Regards,

Justin

-------- Original Message --------
On Jul 16, 2022, 2:54 PM, Håvard F. Aasen < havard.f.aasen@pfft.no> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been looking at scap-security-guide [1], where Debian security Tools is
> maintainer and Philippe Thierry (cc'd) is the only uploader.
>
> The package was removed from unstable on 2021-12-17, where the reason was
> > RoQA; Depends on python 2, unmaintained
> This is also bug #938438 [2]. As noted in the bug, upstream has already
> ported the package to Python 3, so this is no longer a blocker.
>
> I would appreciate if this package was reintroduced into Debian.
>
> Is someone from the team willing to maintain the package? Can I
> submit an mr in salsa and have it reintroduced that way?
> Can I salvage the package and take over the maintenance myself?
>
>
> Regards,
> Håvard
>
> [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/scap-security-guide
> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/938438