Source: nagios-nrpe-plugin Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
the installation of nagios-nrpe-plugin will cause the installation of nagios3 as the package currently includes a "Recommends: nagios3 | icinga" which should, in my opinion, be downgraded to a "Suggests: nagios3 | icinga". The reasoning behind this is that you will typically install this package on many hosts that you want to monitor, but will report their results to a central location that already runs nagios or icinga. This dependency makes it necessary to special-case many automatic provisioning mechanisms or to remind new colleagues to be aware of the "nagios3 problem". A recommends would be appropriate if the "packages [that] would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations." [0] and I would argue that the more common setup is, in fact, one in which both packages are not installed at the same time. [0] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
