On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 11:36:45PM +0100, Lars Kruse wrote: > I prepared a proposal that moves most suggests to munin-plugins-core or > munin-plugins-extra: > > https://salsa.debian.org/sumpfralle-guest/munin/commit/b31088a2d319bc723ae9e61d7f33f99edda486a2 cool! thank you.
> There are four remaining open entries:
> * gawk (depends)
> * libcrypt-ssleay-perl (suggests)
> * libwww-perl (suggests)
> * procps (depends)
>
> gawk and procps are used by many plugins. I am not sure, whether it is worth
> the trouble to track the plugins (and their corresponding) packages using
> these
> common tools.
I agree, those should be depends (or at least recommends).
> Regarding libcrypt-ssleay-perl and libwww-perl: I do not see a reason for
> these
> suggestions. At least there is no direct "use" or "require" to be found in
> upstream's sources. Both suggestions are part of the packaging since it moved
> to git (around 2012). Should we keep them anyway?
If we don't know (and can't figure out) why we have them, I guess it's ok to
drop them.
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cheers,
Holger
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