On Wednesday 20 April 2005 14:07, Steve Langasek wrote: > FYI, the netsaint-plugins package is only available from non-us.debian.org, > which is quite moribund and will be discontinued with the release of sarge. > This bug will not be fixed, as the netsaint package has been replaced with > nagios in the main archive. I would strongly encourage you to install > nagios rather than fighting with any bugs in netsaint; of course, please > let us know if you find bugs (this one or others) in nagios.
Please, reconsider. 1) The debian-non-US archive was separated only in consequence of US law (the law of a country where not to say everybody live), not of "unimportance" of packages in it. It's just mirrored elsewhere outside US, but logically should be considered as part of the official archive. Think also about other forms of Debian distribution (on CD sets for instance). 2) There is no nagios package in Debian release. There _is_ netsaint package. It may be weak, buggy and uncomfortable (relatively to nagios), but it is released, and people use it. If one (like me) uses it for years, and one day just adds a new service to be monitored (and that was $subj), gets a wierd result, tests the plugin from the command line under root (yes, i know, i know, that's bad!), and gets a lot of working packages breaked.. what should he do? That will be not a good time to upgrade all his systems to nagios/sarge/whatever. I beg to prepare NMU, if you don't object. -- Regards, Al Nikolov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
