Package: collectd-core
Version: 5.12.0-7
Severity: minor

Dear maintainer,

collectd-core suggests hddtemp which is going to be removed from the
archive.

hddtemp is a software from another age that will not be shipped with
Debian Bookworm release [1]. However it could be easily replaced by the
drivetemp kernel module (available since kernel 5.6) which uses the same
hwmon interface as for NVME drives and other systems sensors and is
supported by lm-sensors. It does not require any privilege, as opposed
to hddtemp which runs as a daemon or a setuid binary.

collectd-core currently suggests hddtemp. However it also has a module
using the libsensors5 library from lm-sensors, offering an easy
transition.  It also has a module that use libatasmart4 to provide an
alternative way to read ATA drive temperatures. Therefore the fix is
therefore to drop the hddtemp suggests. You might also want to stop
building the hddtemp.so module.

Note that suggests do not affected installability, so there is no
urgency in doing so, but it should eventually be dropped.

Regards,
Aurelien

[1] https://sources.debian.org/src/hddtemp/0.3-beta15-54/debian/NEWS/

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