[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#340726: nsca: please provide a way to install send_nsca without nagios + dependencies

[Stephen Gran]

Package: nsca
Severity: normal

Hello,

I am trying right now to set up a few distributed network test stations.
The idea is that they will check a few network services and report the
remote availability to a central nagios server, via send_nsca.  While
this binary does not itself need anything to speak of, trying to apt-get
install it means that I pull in nagios, apache, and a half million other
things.

I can see two ways to resolve this:

split send_nsca and nsca into two packages (which seems silly, as they
would have one binary apiece, but is not unprecedented), or relax the
depends to a recommends.  I think the first is actually a better option
as admins installing nsca will actually want it to be useful, and nsca
itself is only useful on the nagios host.

Thanks,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
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Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686-smp
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