Mehdi Dogguy schrieb am Wednesday, den 29. September 2010: Hi,
> >having a look into the status of the nagios packages in squeeze, we > >discovered, that ndoutils is not in squeeze (yet). > > > >Not having ndoutils in squeeze means: > > > >* nagvis is broken (missing recommand) > > That doesn't mean that nagvis is broken, since it only recommends > ndoutils-mysql. If it's a real runtime non-optional dependency, it makes > nagvis RC buggy. nagvis can use several backends, currently ndoutils-mysql is the only one that is available in debian. > >* ndoutils is in lenny but dropped with squeeze (maybe without any > >strong reason) > > Never assume that! It was rc-buggy (#560681, causing some data-loss) and > that's why it was removed. Its maintainer didn't try to get it back in > testing. It has been out of testing for over than 7 months now... The maintainer is more or less MIA - we (as nagios team) now took over. Shouldn't the package get automatically back into testing if the RC bug fixed? > >* many 3rd party applications are based on ndoutils, so this will > >have a significant effect for the nagios "ecosystem" on squeeze > > Nothing depends on it (unless I'm on crack), so how its removal can > have a significant effect for the nagios "ecosystem" in Squeeze? Most 3rd party reporting tools and most homebrew thingys around that use ndo. > >* popcon count is 235 > > > > Which is not high... It means that at least 20% of all nagios3 installations have it. Which isn't that less. Alex -- Alexander Wirt, [email protected] CC99 2DDD D39E 75B0 B0AA B25C D35B BC99 BC7D 020A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
