[Pkg-nagios-devel] [Nagiosplug-devel] Libtap included in distribution

[Andreas Ericsson]

Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote:
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> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> | Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote:
> |> And how will you guarantee compatibility across all platform
> |> Nagios-plugins get compiled on? I don't want to disappoint you but I
> |> don't see any compelling reason to change the way we do regarding Gnulib
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> | I do. If most of it isn't getting used, then get rid of it and import the
> | parts that *are* getting used. It's quite possible that the nagiosplugins
> | gets used on more platforms than gnulib, in which case you'll have to ship
> | patches upstream every now and then.
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> I'd doubt it. Gnulib is used very widely, and certainly support more
> architectures than we do.
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Quite so, but the nagiosplug project gets installed on all unixy flavours
in networks where someone's running Nagios. Personally, I've helped
install it on more variants of unix than I even knew existed, and at
least 3 major-versions of each variant. gnulib was not much of an option
there, to be honest.

> | If there are bugs in gnulib, you'll have no part of it if it's not part of
> | the stuff you imported (which, by the sound of it, is unlikely).
> 
> What do you mean??
> 

I mean "remove the unused sourcecode from the repository". Right now there's
quite a lot of it, as stated before.

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