[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#569028: nagios-plugins-standard: please move some depends to recommends

[Helmut Grohne]

Package: nagios-plugins-standard
Version: 1.4.14-1
Severity: normal

The nagios-plugins-standard package pulls in tons of dependencies that
are completely useless to me. This is the depends header:

Depends:
	libc6 (>= 2.3),
Unavoidable.
	libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7),
	libmysqlclient16 (>= 5.1.21-1),
	libpq5 (>= 8.4~0cvs20090328),
	libradiusclient-ng2,
The four above are probably not required by all setups, so they might be
candidates for recommends. Having binaries with missing libraries is a
bit weird, these are better kept.
	zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4),
Probably unavoidable.
	fping,
	snmp,
	radiusclient1,
	libnet-snmp-perl,
	dnsutils,
	bind9-host | host,
	smbclient,
The seven above are good candidates for recommends.
	ucf,
Probably unavoidable.
	nagios-plugins-basic (>= 1.4.5-2)
This is better kept.

So please move some dependencies to recommends and make a smaller
installation possible.

Helmut