On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 03:16:39PM +0400, Al Nikolov wrote: > 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). Its unimportance comes from the fact that there are very few packages remaining there, even in woody. The archive scripts have never been restored to operation after the server compromise in 2003; so although this is a bug that affects the stable version of Debian (which I didn't understand before, sorry), it is unlikely that this problem will be fixed if it requires uploading a new package to non-US. > 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. I have no objections, but I'm not the package maintainer. I was merely commenting on an RC bug that seems unlikely to get fixed. If you feel strongly about getting this bug fixed in woody, you will most likely need to talk to the stable release manager about getting this fix allowed in through main (not non-US). -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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