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Subject: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#679871: nagios-nrpe-server: weird dependency on backuppc
From: Werner Detter <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Date: 2012-07-02 09:49
Package: nagios-nrpe-server
Version: 2.12-6
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

the installation of the package "nagios-nrpe-server" on a freshly installed 
Debian Wheezy also installs the package
"backuppc":

root@rw2:~# aptitude install nagios-nrpe-server
Die folgenden NEUEN Pakete werden zusätzlich installiert:
   apache2{a} apache2-mpm-worker{a} apache2-utils{a} apache2.2-bin{a} 
apache2.2-common{a} backuppc{a} fontconfig{a} fping{a} freeipmi-common{a}
   freeipmi-tools{a} libapr1{a} libaprutil1{a} libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3{a} 
libaprutil1-ldap{a} libarchive-zip-perl{a} libcairo2{a}
   libclass-accessor-perl{a} libconfig-tiny-perl{a} libdate-manip-perl{a} 
libdatrie1{a} libdbi1{a} libdigest-hmac-perl{a} libencode-locale-perl{a}
   libfile-listing-perl{a} libfile-rsyncp-perl{a} libfont-afm-perl{a} 
libfreeipmi12{a} libhtml-form-perl{a} libhtml-format-perl{a}
   libhtml-parser-perl{a} libhtml-tagset-perl{a} libhtml-tree-perl{a} 
libhttp-cookies-perl{a} libhttp-daemon-perl{a} libhttp-date-perl{a}
   libhttp-message-perl{a} libhttp-negotiate-perl{a} libio-dirent-perl{a} 
libio-pty-perl{a} libio-socket-inet6-perl{a} libio-socket-ssl-perl{a}
   libipc-run-perl{a} libipmiconsole2{a} libipmidetect0{a} 
liblwp-mediatypes-perl{a} liblwp-protocol-https-perl{a} 
liblwp-useragent-determined-perl{a}
   libmail-imapclient-perl{a} libmailtools-perl{a} libmath-calc-units-perl{a} 
libmemcached10{a} libmodule-implementation-perl{a}
   libmodule-runtime-perl{a} libmysqlclient18{a} libnagios-plugin-perl{a} 
libnet-dns-perl{a} libnet-http-perl{a} libnet-ip-perl{a}
   libnet-smtp-tls-perl{a} libnet-snmp-perl{a} libnet-ssleay-perl{a} 
libpango1.0-0{a} libparams-classify-perl{a} libparams-validate-perl{a}
   libparse-recdescent-perl{a} libpixman-1-0{a} libpng12-0{a} libpq5{a} 
libradiusclient-ng2{a} libreadonly-perl{a} libreadonly-xs-perl{a} librrd4{a}
   libruby1.9.1{a} libsocket6-perl{a} libsub-name-perl{a} libtalloc2{a} 
libtdb1{a} libthai-data{a} libthai0{a} libtime-modules-perl{a}
   libtimedate-perl{a} libtry-tiny-perl{a} liburi-perl{a} libwbclient0{a} 
libwww-perl{a} libwww-robotrules-perl{a} libxcb-render0{a} libxcb-shm0{a}
   libyaml-0-2{a} libyaml-syck-perl{a} mysql-common{a} nagios-nrpe-server 
nagios-plugins{a} nagios-plugins-basic{a} nagios-plugins-common{a}
   nagios-plugins-contrib{a} nagios-plugins-standard{a} qstat{a} rrdtool{a} 
rsync{a} ruby{a} ruby1.9.1{a} samba-common{a} samba-common-bin{a}
   smbclient{a} snmp{a} ssl-cert{a} ttf-dejavu{a} ttf-dejavu-extra{a}

What's the reason for that? It's quite annoying because the package has to be 
removed every time if you don't need or don't use backuppc.

that's not an issue of the nagios-nrpe-server package, but nagios-plugins-contrib - see the recommends instead of suggests.
http://packages.debian.org/sid/nagios-plugins-contrib

meanwhile you coud try the --no-install-recommends flag on apt, as described here for the plugin itsself https://wiki.icinga.org/display/howtos/Setting+up+NRPE+with+Icinga

alex will move the issue later on.



Thank you,
Werner Detter

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages nagios-nrpe-server depends on:
ii  adduser      3.113+nmu3
ii  libc6        2.13-33
ii  libssl1.0.0  1.0.1c-3
ii  libwrap0     7.6.q-23
ii  lsb-base     4.1+Debian7

Versions of packages nagios-nrpe-server recommends:
ii  nagios-plugins        1.4.16~pre1-1
ii  nagios-plugins-basic  1.4.16~pre1-1

nagios-nrpe-server suggests no packages.

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