[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#638175: Bug#638175: nagios-snmp-plugins: Package name inconsistent

[Jan Wagner]

Hi Dave,

On Wednesday 17 August 2011 13:00:11 Dave Page wrote:
> The three main Nagios plugin packages in Debian are:
> 
> - nagios-plugins
> - nagios-plugins-basic
> - nagios-plugins-standard

where all these packages are results of the source package "nagios-
plugins"[1].
 
> It would be useful if nagios-snmp-plugins were renamed nagios-plugins-snmp
> for consistency.

I don't agree here. The package "nagios-snmp-plugins"[2] has no (strong) 
relationship to the packages resulting from "nagios-plugins" source package, 
as it has a complete different code base. Renaming the package would suggest 
such a relationship and maybe also, that this will be a generic package with 
nagios snmp plugins, which is not true.

> I recently wasted a little time by searching for
> nagios-plugins-* trying to find the SNMP plugins.

This is really easy to fix for example with:

$ apt-cache search nagios snmp
nagios-snmp-plugins - SNMP Plugins for nagios

With kind regards, Jan.
[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/nagios-plugins
[2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/nagios-snmp-plugins
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