[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#679871: Bug#679871: nagios-nrpe-server: weird dependency on backuppc

[Michael Friedrich]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#679871: nagios-nrpe-server: weird 
dependency on backuppc
From: Werner Detter <werner at aloah-from-hell.de>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
Date: 2012-07-02 09:49
> Package: nagios-nrpe-server
> Version: 2.12-6
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> the installation of the package "nagios-nrpe-server" on a freshly installed Debian Wheezy also installs the package
> "backuppc":
>
> root at rw2:~# aptitude install nagios-nrpe-server
> Die folgenden NEUEN Pakete werden zusätzlich installiert:
>    apache2{a} apache2-mpm-worker{a} apache2-utils{a} apache2.2-bin{a} apache2.2-common{a} backuppc{a} fontconfig{a} fping{a} freeipmi-common{a}
>    freeipmi-tools{a} libapr1{a} libaprutil1{a} libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3{a} libaprutil1-ldap{a} libarchive-zip-perl{a} libcairo2{a}
>    libclass-accessor-perl{a} libconfig-tiny-perl{a} libdate-manip-perl{a} libdatrie1{a} libdbi1{a} libdigest-hmac-perl{a} libencode-locale-perl{a}
>    libfile-listing-perl{a} libfile-rsyncp-perl{a} libfont-afm-perl{a} libfreeipmi12{a} libhtml-form-perl{a} libhtml-format-perl{a}
>    libhtml-parser-perl{a} libhtml-tagset-perl{a} libhtml-tree-perl{a} libhttp-cookies-perl{a} libhttp-daemon-perl{a} libhttp-date-perl{a}
>    libhttp-message-perl{a} libhttp-negotiate-perl{a} libio-dirent-perl{a} libio-pty-perl{a} libio-socket-inet6-perl{a} libio-socket-ssl-perl{a}
>    libipc-run-perl{a} libipmiconsole2{a} libipmidetect0{a} liblwp-mediatypes-perl{a} liblwp-protocol-https-perl{a} liblwp-useragent-determined-perl{a}
>    libmail-imapclient-perl{a} libmailtools-perl{a} libmath-calc-units-perl{a} libmemcached10{a} libmodule-implementation-perl{a}
>    libmodule-runtime-perl{a} libmysqlclient18{a} libnagios-plugin-perl{a} libnet-dns-perl{a} libnet-http-perl{a} libnet-ip-perl{a}
>    libnet-smtp-tls-perl{a} libnet-snmp-perl{a} libnet-ssleay-perl{a} libpango1.0-0{a} libparams-classify-perl{a} libparams-validate-perl{a}
>    libparse-recdescent-perl{a} libpixman-1-0{a} libpng12-0{a} libpq5{a} libradiusclient-ng2{a} libreadonly-perl{a} libreadonly-xs-perl{a} librrd4{a}
>    libruby1.9.1{a} libsocket6-perl{a} libsub-name-perl{a} libtalloc2{a} libtdb1{a} libthai-data{a} libthai0{a} libtime-modules-perl{a}
>    libtimedate-perl{a} libtry-tiny-perl{a} liburi-perl{a} libwbclient0{a} libwww-perl{a} libwww-robotrules-perl{a} libxcb-render0{a} libxcb-shm0{a}
>    libyaml-0-2{a} libyaml-syck-perl{a} mysql-common{a} nagios-nrpe-server nagios-plugins{a} nagios-plugins-basic{a} nagios-plugins-common{a}
>    nagios-plugins-contrib{a} nagios-plugins-standard{a} qstat{a} rrdtool{a} rsync{a} ruby{a} ruby1.9.1{a} samba-common{a} samba-common-bin{a}
>    smbclient{a} snmp{a} ssl-cert{a} ttf-dejavu{a} ttf-dejavu-extra{a}
>
> What's the reason for that? It's quite annoying because the package has to be removed every time if you don't need or don't use backuppc.

that's not an issue of the nagios-nrpe-server package, but 
nagios-plugins-contrib - see the recommends instead of suggests.
http://packages.debian.org/sid/nagios-plugins-contrib

meanwhile you coud try the --no-install-recommends flag on apt, as 
described here for the plugin itsself 
https://wiki.icinga.org/display/howtos/Setting+up+NRPE+with+Icinga

alex will move the issue later on.


>
> Thank you,
> Werner Detter
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>    APT prefers testing
>    APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages nagios-nrpe-server depends on:
> ii  adduser      3.113+nmu3
> ii  libc6        2.13-33
> ii  libssl1.0.0  1.0.1c-3
> ii  libwrap0     7.6.q-23
> ii  lsb-base     4.1+Debian7
>
> Versions of packages nagios-nrpe-server recommends:
> ii  nagios-plugins        1.4.16~pre1-1
> ii  nagios-plugins-basic  1.4.16~pre1-1
>
> nagios-nrpe-server suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
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