Hi,

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:01:01PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> On 11340 March 1977, Sebastian Harl wrote:
> 
> > block 473435 by 358637
> > thanks
> 
> Interesting, you just blocked this bug by one thats archived...

Yap, I realized that after getting the response from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - has
been fixed by now.

> >> Well, collectd misses the iptables plugin at least on amd64.
> 
> > This plugin requires libiptc which is only available as a static
> > library. As, per policy, libiptc has not been built with -fPIC, it
> > cannot be linked into a shared object on amd64 (and a couple of other
> > architectures). This can be solved by providing an additional package
> > which includes PIC support.
> 
> It doesn't appear to be available anymore at all.

See #472655.

> > I'd really appreciate to see such a package for libiptc.
> > See [1] for more details about building packages with PIC support.
> 
> I don't want to rebuilt stuff by hand, thats not why I use Debian :)

That's not what I meant - these paragraphs were meant for Laurence. I
guess I should have made that clear in the first place ;-)

> I guess its time for someone else to provide such packages, as they have
> been removed from iptables, or to include the needed code into collectd
> or to get the plugin working in some other way. :()

If Laurence cannot be persuaded to re-add libiptc to iptables-dev, I
will either have it included in collectd upstream or the collectd Debian
package - I don't really like either way though.

Cheers,
Sebastian

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