Suricata

I guess he means the outdated suricata version included in debian itself.

There is packaging available for both Debian and Ubuntu. The difference is that for Ubuntu we support our own Ubuntu PPA packaging where we make the latest Suricata versions a available right after every release. The Debian repository (for Jessie for example) currently has Suricata 2.0.7 - which is lagging behind.

We can consider adding Debian packaging to provide the latest versions.

Peter Manev wrote:

There is packaging available for both Debian and Ubuntu. The difference is that for Ubuntu we support our own Ubuntu PPA packaging where we make the latest Suricata versions available right after every release. The Debian repository (for Jessie for example) currently has Suricata 2.0.7 - which is lagging behind.

We can consider adding Debian packaging to provide the latest versions.

I would like to second this feature request of a Debian repository.

1) At the moment, there are no backports for the current stable release (Buster). And for oldstable (Stretch), the backports are stuck at 4.1.2 as well.

2) Even if the backporting activity would resume, it's only a matter of time until a gap between the maintenance releases and backports arises again. That is, when the freeze period for the next release begins, backports to stable will also be stuck at whatever version was "frozen" for the next Debian release. So. I don't think the backports repository is the best place for a stable and maintained package archive.