Hi,

On Thursday 23 October 2008 10:51, Guido Günther wrote:
> I discussed that with Matthias and didn't come to conclusion. Finally I
> decided to go for an extra package. Basically for two reasons:
>
>  * I don't have to bother you folks with new versions (there's already a
>    forth plugin underway)

I guess we would happily welcome you in the munin maintainer team :-D

>  * we don't need to add even more dependencies to munin-plugins-extra.
>    Folks might not want to have python-libvirt which pulls in libvirt
>    which pulls in xen libs on their system.

Currently we only use suggests for stuff the plugins need...

>  * Backports: backporting munin-plugins-extra will become hard if there
>    it has too man dependencies

See above :)

> So here's my suggestion: let's let the plugins stabilize a bit while
> keeping them in an exrra source package and move them over to
> munin-plugins-extra then (maybe shipping them as an extra binary
> package, so people don't need install them).

Are these plugins even automatically configured? The vserver ones are not and 
I doubt these are.


regards,
        Holger

Attachment: pgpJ3IEOYPO3t.pgp
Description: PGP signature

Reply via email to