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

[Alexander Wirt]

Nikolay Panov schrieb am Monday, den 07. June 2010:

Hi, 

> 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?
Unfortunatly yes. I tried to remove the php support as in the version before,
but this isn't worth the work and has to be repeated for every update. 

If you want to create clean patches for it, feel free. 

Sorry 
Alex