Package: monitoring-plugins-contrib Severity: normal Hello,
The monitoring-plugins-contrib package contains many useful things, so I tend to always install it on hosts. However, many checks that are contained within it are not really useful most of the time. This means that if I just install this package as-is, I'll end up with lots of useless dependencies on every host, so I've started installing it with --no-install-recommends. This has the benefit of letting me manage what dependencies come with it, but it has the downfall that I need to manually install the required ones. I would like to suggest breaking up this package into smaller binary packages that are focused on one application/service per package. This way one could install only the checks that are required with their individual requirements. The package named monitoring-plugins-contrib could be kept in place just to make it depend on all of the other smaller packages. This way the current behavior would be kept around for ppl used to installing this package and getting it all in one go. -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, TAINT_WARN Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled monitoring-plugins-contrib depends on no packages. Versions of packages monitoring-plugins-contrib recommends: ii bind9-host 1:9.16.15-1 ii binutils 2.35.2-2 ii curl 7.74.0-1.3 pn debsecan <none> ii file 1:5.39-3 pn freeipmi-tools <none> ii libc6 2.31-12 ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1.1 pn libdata-validate-ip-perl <none> ii libdate-manip-perl 6.85-1 pn libdbd-mysql-perl <none> ii libio-socket-ssl-perl 2.069-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20200505.0-1 ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-4+b1 pn liblwp-useragent-determined-perl <none> pn libmail-imapclient-perl <none> pn libmemcached11 <none> pn libmonitoring-plugin-perl | libnagios-plugin-perl <none> pn libnet-cups-perl <none> ii libnet-dns-perl 1.29-1 ii libnet-dns-sec-perl 1.18-1+b1 ii libnet-smtp-ssl-perl 1.04-1 pn libnet-smtp-tls-perl <none> pn libnet-smtpauth-perl <none> pn libnet-snmp-perl <none> ii libnet-ssleay-perl 1.88-3+b1 ii libreadonly-perl 2.050-3 pn libredis-perl <none> ii libsocket-perl 2.031-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-2 pn libwebinject-perl <none> ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1 pn lz4 <none> ii lzop 1.04-2 pn nagios-plugins-basic <none> ii openssl 1.1.1k-1 ii perl 5.32.1-4 ii perl-base [libsocket-perl] 5.32.1-4 ii python3 3.9.2-3 pn python3-pymongo <none> ii ruby 1:2.7+2 ii snmp 5.9+dfsg-3+b1 ii whois 5.5.10 Versions of packages monitoring-plugins-contrib suggests: pn backuppc <none> pn cciss-vol-status <none> pn expect <none> ii libsys-virt-perl 7.0.0-1 pn moreutils <none> pn mpt-status <none> pn nagios-plugin-check-multi <none> pn percona-toolkit <none> pn perl-doc <none> pn python3-boto <none> pn smstools <none>
