Package: nut
Version: 2.8.1-1
Hi,
the most recent version of nut added the new apc_modbus driver,
but it did so to the base nut-server package.
Due to that on upgrade people will get more dependencies installed:
The following additional packages will be installed:
libmodbus5
This feels odd as there is the explicit nut-modbus package to
encapsulate those drivers with a dependency to it. From d/control:
"This package provides nut-modbus, a collection of drivers for UPS
systems with Modbus-based communication protocols."
This might as well be intentional, but then OTOH what would we keep
nut-modbus for?
If it was not intentional I'd prefer to move apc_modbus to nut-modbus
(which for transparency [1] would also help me on the Ubuntu side with
dependencies)
For the second option I provided you a PR to consider [2], let me know
what you think.
[1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nut/+bug/2046263
[2]: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/nut/-/merge_requests/8
Thanks in advance for thinking about this and a happy start to 2024!
Christian Ehrhardt
