Carl Chenet schrieb am Friday, den 13. December 2013: > On 13/12/2013 14:38, Alexander Wirt wrote: > >> #686256 contains a patch for it (in the body of the last message). So > >> this is a blocking issue, not for this package itself but for wanna-be > >> packages in Debian archive). > > I am sorry, but this is "API (I don't like this word)" is not stable in any > > way. Providing them in a package isn't a good idea. > > > > Alex > > Thanks for your answer Alex, > > I don't agree with you on this topic. The headers will be clearly > identified as associated with a specific version of Nagios. They are not > a API and they don't have to be stable in time, from one version to another. > > People build things around Nagios, so it is a user need, and not > providing these files (which exist anyway and are included in other > packages (see the check-mk package, in the livestatus.tar.gz file) force > people to embed these files in their own Debian package for no good > reason except that the Nagios package does not provide a headers package. Yeah, indeed. They embed the version that works for them.
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