Looks like there is a licensing issue with snort rules as they are distributed under the VRT Certified Rules license (http://snort.org/about_snort/licenses/vrt_license.html). See the Debian bug report for more info.
** Changed in: snort (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged => Wishlist -- version of snort in universe is dead https://launchpad.net/bugs/56533 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
