nmap 7.94 does not build zenmap

[Vladimir Dergachev]

proposed nmap 7.94 package has zenmap ported to python 3.0, which should make it possible to build it for ubuntu, however the build is still done with --without-zenmap flag.

[Lucas Kanashiro (lucaskanashiro)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and trying to make Ubuntu better.

The nmap package in Ubuntu is in sync with Debian (Ubuntu applies no changes on top of Debian), and ideally, we should keep it that way to avoid increasing our maintenance burden. This is a feature request that should be forwarded to Debian, and once it is uploaded there it will be synced in Ubuntu. Would you mind filing a bug against the nmap package in Debian? If you do so, please add a link to the Debian bug here so we can track it.

FWIW I tried to build it with --with-zenmap flag locally (no other change) and it did not work. I do not know nmap very well but maybe it is not that straightforward. Let's see what the Debian maintainers say about it.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

> FWIW I tried to build it with --with-zenmap flag locally (no other change) and it did not work.

I'm not that familiar with the package either, but I looked at the changes when zenmap was originally disabled.

https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-security-team/nmap/-/commit/7bac182cd603dd765748241027178f507d21b400 added the compilation flag, however
https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-security-team/nmap/-/commit/86cfd4e13bd2474b0ffbcfa5a75035922984745e contains additional changes. Most of those changes probably need to be added and possibly adjusted for changes in the meantime.

[Lucas Kanashiro (lucaskanashiro)]

I got in touch with the Debian maintainer and he is planning to ship zenmap again in a near future, nmap migration is at the moment blocked in Debian and he wants to sort that out first. I do not think we should add a delta in Ubuntu to do this, let's wait for Debian.