snort 2.9.15.1-6 source package in Ubuntu

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snort (2.9.15.1-6) unstable; urgency=medium

  * debian/rules: Rename the cron.daily script from snort-common to 0snort-common
  * debian/snort-common.{pre,post}inst, debian/snort-common.postrm: Move the 
    cron.daily snort-common file to cron.daily/0snort-common in order for
    Snort to send reports to the system administrator. With the previous setup
    logrotate was running before snort-common which left the log file to 0
    bytes and prevent the package from sending any email reports 
    (Closes: #991977)
  * debian/snort-common.preinst, debian/snort-common.postrm: Apply patch
    provided by Andreas Beckmann to call dpkg-maintscript-helper for all actions (Closes: #991630)
  * Fix FTCBFS with patch provided by Helmut Grohne: (Closes: #977394)
    + Pass reasonable --build and --host to configure.
    + cross.patch: Replace a number of AC_RUN_IFELSE with cross-compatible
      variants.
  * debian/control: Update to Standards Version 4.6.0 (no changes)
  * debian/patches/snort_binary_typos: New patch fixing typos detected by
    lintian in the snort binary and libraries
  * debian/snort-rules-default.README.Debian: Fix typo [lintian fix]
  * Add debian/upstream/metadata (pointing to Snort 3 as there is no Snort 2.x
    code repository available)

 -- Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <email address hidden>  Sun, 05 Sep 2021 15:38:14 +0200

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snort: flexible Network Intrusion Detection System

 Snort is a libpcap-based packet sniffer/logger which can be used as a
 lightweight network intrusion detection system. It features rules-based
 logging and can perform content searching/matching in addition to
 detecting a variety of other attacks and probes, such as buffer
 overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, and much more.
 Snort has a real-time alerting capability, with alerts being sent to
 syslog, a separate "alert" file, or even to a Windows computer via Samba.
 .
 This package provides the plain-vanilla version of Snort.

snort-common: flexible Network Intrusion Detection System - common files

 Snort is a libpcap-based packet sniffer/logger which can be used as a
 lightweight network intrusion detection system. It features rules-based
 logging and can perform content searching/matching in addition to
 detecting a variety of other attacks and probes, such as buffer
 overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, and much more.
 Snort has a real-time alerting capability, with alerts being sent to
 syslog, a separate "alert" file, or even to a Windows computer via Samba.
 .
 This is a common package which holds cron jobs, tools, and config files
 used by all the different package flavors.

snort-common-libraries: flexible Network Intrusion Detection System - libraries

 Snort is a libpcap-based packet sniffer/logger which can be used as a
 lightweight network intrusion detection system. It features rules-based
 logging and can perform content searching/matching in addition to
 detecting a variety of other attacks and probes, such as buffer
 overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, and much more.
 Snort has a real-time alerting capability, with alerts being sent to
 syslog, a separate "alert" file, or even to a Windows computer via Samba.
 .
 This package provides libraries used by all the Snort binary packages.

snort-common-libraries-dbgsym: debug symbols for snort-common-libraries
snort-dbgsym: debug symbols for snort
snort-doc: flexible Network Intrusion Detection System - documentation

 Snort is a libpcap-based packet sniffer/logger which can be used as a
 lightweight network intrusion detection system. It features rules-based
 logging and can perform content searching/matching in addition to
 detecting a variety of other attacks and probes, such as buffer
 overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, and much more.
 Snort has a real-time alerting capability, with alerts being sent to
 syslog, a separate "alert" file, or even to a Windows computer via Samba.
 .
 This package provides the documentation for Snort.

snort-rules-default: flexible Network Intrusion Detection System - ruleset

 Snort is a libpcap-based packet sniffer/logger which can be used as a
 lightweight network intrusion detection system. It features rules-based
 logging and can perform content searching/matching in addition to
 detecting a variety of other attacks and probes, such as buffer
 overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, and much more.
 Snort has a real-time alerting capability, with alerts being sent to
 syslog, a separate "alert" file, or even to a Windows computer via Samba.
 .
 This is the Snort default ruleset, which provides a basic set of network
 intrusion detection rules developed by the Snort community. They can be
 used as a basis for development of additional rules. Users using Snort to
 defend networks in production environments are encouraged to update their
 local rulesets as described in the included documentation or using the
 oinkmaster package.