SCAP Workbench is all Blank in Ubuntu 18.04LTS

[humanphile]

Description of Problem:

I installed SCAP Workbench without any errors through apt-get but SCAP Workbench is all Greyed out.

OpenSCAP Version:

OSCAP 1.2.15

Operating System & Version:

Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open the SCAP Workbench
2. It is all grey out nothing is enabled

Actual Results:

Expected Results:

Additional Information / Debugging Steps:

[abarnes111]

Same issue , Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS and OSCAP 1.2.15

[evgenyz]

Just to make it clear: scap-workbench is 1.1.5-1 in 18.04. And not packaged in any other version.

1.1.x versions of the Workbench as well as 1.2.x versions of the OpenSCAP itself are not maintained and won't receive any updates in the future. Now, it's Ubuntu's (actually Debian's, but Ubuntu is not acting on the topic as well) decision to not to update the packages. This is the place to make a difference: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openscap/+bugs?field.status:list=NEW.

[evgenyz]

Also I believe that it is a duplicate of #220.

[cipherboy]

Note for anyone coming across this: Ubuntu (and Debian) does not package scap-security-guide. This means the modal dialogue that pops up when scap-security-guide is installed doesn't show up (like it does on RHEL or Fedora for instance). You'll need to go to file and load XCCDF/OVAL/DS directly in this case (file -> open other content). This will work even when scap-workbench is grayed out.

Two approaches I can think of if anyone's interested:

1. Work with Debian to update scap-workbench and also package scap-security-guide (now ComplianceAsCode/content), or,
2. Open a PR here to add alternative modal content and show the modal anyways so scap-workbench doesn't show up as grayed and gives some indication it works.

Also, you can invoke scap-workbench via the CLI with a path to a file to tailor and then it will load content and won't show up as grayed out.

(This also impacts upstream scap-workbench, hence this message &c).

The correct place to contribute would be in Debian -- Bullseye and Sid have removed the scap-workbench package (IIUC) due to a lack of maintainers and so it was also removed from later Ubuntu releases. It is unlikely 18.04 will receive an update at this point and new packages likely won't land in 20.04 -- so placing in Debian now would get it back in time for 22.04.