[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#584949: php-free version of nagios3-cgi?

[Nikolay Panov]

Package: nagios3-cgi
Version: 3.2.0-5~bpo50+1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

In the NEWS.Debian of the nagios3-cgi you wrote:

  I decided to remove the php frontend included with 3.2.0 and replace 
  it with the old html frontend. Its my personal oppinion that php
  should not be used for administrational and security sensitive tasks.

I totally agree with you. So I was unpleasantly surprised where find the
following record into the Depends section of 'testing' version of the
nagios3-cgi:

  Package: nagios3-cgi
  ...
  Version: 3.2.1-1~bpo50+1
  Replaces: nagios3-common, nagios3-doc
  Depends: nagios3-common (= 3.2.1-1~bpo50+1), coreutils (>= 4.5.3), ucf
  (>= 0.28), apache2-utils, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, libc6 (>=
  2.7-1), libgd2-noxpm (>= 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg) | libgd2-xpm (>=
  2.0.36~rc1~dfsg), libjpeg62, libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), zlib1g (>=
  1:1.1.4), adduser, libapache2-mod-php5 | php5 | php5-cgi

Does php5 has been added to the Depends list by mistake, or nagios3-cgi
really need php5 now?

Have a nice day,
   Nikolay.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages nagios3-cgi depends on:
ii  adduser         3.110                    add and remove users and groups
ii  apache2-utils   2.2.9-10+lenny7          utility programs for webservers
ii  coreutils       6.10-6                   The GNU core utilities
ii  debconf [debcon 1.5.24                   Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6           2.7-18lenny2             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgd2-noxpm    2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-3+lenny1 GD Graphics Library version 2 (wit
ii  libjpeg62       6b-14                    The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpng12-0      1.2.27-2+lenny3          PNG library - runtime
ii  nagios3-common  3.2.0-5~bpo50+1          support files for nagios3
ii  ucf             3.0016                   Update Configuration File: preserv
ii  zlib1g          1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12        compression library - runtime

Versions of packages nagios3-cgi recommends:
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork [htt 2.2.9-10+lenny7 Apache HTTP Server - traditional n
ii  nagios-images            0.4             Collection of images and icons for

nagios3-cgi suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/nagios3/cgi.cfg changed [not included]
/etc/nagios3/stylesheets/common.css changed [not included]

-- debconf information excluded