Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add nmap

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 11:36:23PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> 
> > This package provides nmap [0].
> 
> Did it fall through the cracks?  :-)

I actually revisited Taylan's version last night. The only problem with
his patch is that the nmap GUI 'zenmap' doesn't run, presumably due to
some search path issues. I made a little progress but it still doesn't
work.

I am going to submit a revision of his patch that leaves 'zenmap' for
later.

> 
> > The nmap source distribution comes with a bunch of its dependencies
> > bundled. This package deletes most of them and replaces them with
> > external libraries.
> >
> > This package currently uses the bundled copies of liblinear and libdnet.
> > Liblinear should be packaged separately [1], but I think that the
> > bundled libdnet should be used, because apparently this bundled version
> > is modified [2] enough that Debian has chosen to use it [3].
> 
> Does liblinear have users outside of nmap?  In practice, if it has no
> life outside of nmap and is developed by the same people, it’s fine to
> keep it inside nmap (it’s not really bundling, or at least not the form
> that is problematic.)

I don't know how often it's used. It seems to me that if it was used by
many projects, it would have a proper build system by now. I spent a
while trying to build nmap with an external copy of the library, but so
far without success.