[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#698119: nagios-plugins-standard: Enable --extra-opts in Debian nagios plugins

[Alex Dehnert]

Package: nagios-plugins-standard
Version: 1.4.15-3squeeze1
Severity: normal

Upstream nagios has a config option for support the --extra-opts argument,
which allows storing extra options in a file (see
http://nagiosplugins.org/extra-opts). This is very helpful when using the mysql
nagios plugin, which requires a password --- I can stick my check definition in
nrpe.cfg, but read passwords out of a separate file (and avoid putting the
password in ps -AF output). It would be great if Debian could enable support
for this option prior to 1.5's release (when it will become the default) ---
Fedora already does enable it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages nagios-plugins-standard depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.11.3-4          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.23-7.2        OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libmysqlclient16       5.1.66-0+squeeze1 MySQL database client library
ii  libpq5                 8.4.13-0squeeze1  PostgreSQL C client library
ii  libradiusclient-ng2    0.5.6-1.1         Enhanced RADIUS client library
ii  nagios-plugins-basic   1.4.15-3squeeze1  Plugins for the nagios network mon
ii  ucf                    3.0025+nmu1       Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages nagios-plugins-standard recommends:
ii  bind9-host [host 1:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze8 Version of 'host' bundled with BIN
ii  dnsutils         1:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze8 Clients provided with BIND
ii  fping            2.4b2-to-ipv6-16.1      sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to
ii  host             1:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze8 Transitional package
ii  libnet-snmp-perl 5.2.0-4                 Script SNMP connections
ii  qstat            2.11-3                  Command-line tool for querying qua
ii  smbclient        2:3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze8  command-line SMB/CIFS clients for 
ii  snmp             5.4.3~dfsg-2            SNMP (Simple Network Management Pr
ii  whois            5.0.10                  an intelligent whois client

Versions of packages nagios-plugins-standard suggests:
ii  exim4-daemon-light       4.72-6+squeeze3 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
pn  nagios3                  <none>          (no description available)

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