Bug#778964: ITP: libnet-nessus-xmlrpc-perl -- communicate with Nessus scanner(v4.2+) via XMLRPC

[Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>]

Hi,

Christopher Hoskin <christopher.hoskin@gmail.com> writes:
> Package: wnpp
> Owner: Christopher Hoskin <christopher.hoskin@gmail.com>
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-perl@lists.debian.org
>
> * Package name    : libnet-nessus-xmlrpc-perl
>   Version         : 0.30
>   Upstream Author : Vlatko Kosturjak <kost@linux.hr>
> * URL             : https://metacpan.org/release/Net-Nessus-XMLRPC
> * License         : Artistic or GPL-1+
>   Programming Lang: Perl
>   Description     : communicate with Nessus scanner(v4.2+) via XMLRPC
>
> Net::Nessus::XMLRPC is a Perl interface for communication with the Nessus
> scanner over XMLRPC. It includes methods for starting, stoping, pausing,
> resuming and monitoring scans, downloading reports, etc.

I heard that nessus 6 has abandoned the XMLRPC interface. Is this
package only useful with nessus 5?

-Timo