Upstream now includes a patched version of source files with the plugin architecture for the new 0.8.7i
http://www.cacti.net/downloads/cacti-0.8.7i-PIA-3.1.tar.gz it should now be easier to include it with the Debian package. There might be some users who don't want the Plugin Architecture included (anyone ?), so you may want to have a « PIA-free » and a « PIA-enabled » package. As it would require double packaging effort for the maintainer, I'm ok for a PIA-enabled only approach. Any toughts ?