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Re: Securing Debian Manual too old?

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On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 12:40:19PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote:

> I found the Securing Debian Manual
> (https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-manual/index.en.html).
> This version is from 2017.
> 
> It has „Chapter 6. Automatic hardening of Debian systems” which mentions
> Harden packages and Bastille. None of these packages exist anymore in Debian
> 11 or 12.
> 
> https://bastille-linux.sourceforge.net/running_bastille_on.htm#debian lets
> you follow a link to http://packages.debian.org/bastille but without
> results.
> 
> So what happened here?

I cannot say anything on the Securing Debian manual but when you're interested
in digging up the fate of a particular package in Debian, you can roll like
this:

 1) Go to the "package tracker", and search for the package of interest.
    In this particular case, there was no need to search as a plain guess
    that it should (have been) named "bastille" worked -
    https://tracker.debian.org/bastille is the URL of interest.

 2) There, you can examine the package's status - it's sort of a dashboard.
    In the case of bastille, you can see that the last entry in the log
    of the package activity says it has been removed from unstable.

    Examining that [1] will tell you the reason, and provide further pointers.


 1. https://tracker.debian.org/news/589646/bug718783-removed-packages-from-unstable/

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