[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#741334: Bug#741334: nagios-plugins: New upstream release 2.0

[Michael Friedrich]

On 11.03.2014 12:12, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Package: nagios-plugins
> Version: 1.5-3
> Severity: wishlist
>
> There is a new upstream release (2.0) available for the nagios plugins.
> See: http://nagios-plugins.org/
>
> Please update the package to include the new upstream release and also update
> the Homepage field to point to the new upstream homepage (stated above).

That's not upstream. That's the (hijacked) fork by Nagios Enterprises 
being the domain and trademark owner, but not being the original 
development team.

Probably you should dig a bit into history, like [0] or [1] or [2]

The original upstream was required to be renamed to 
http://www.monitoring-plugins.org which provides the *trusted* upgrade 
path for the sources built into debian binary packages. I'd call that 
upstream, but ask Jan, he'll know better who to trust.

Some further discussion was already here [3] introducing a rename to 
monitoring-plugins while still providing a clean, trusted upgrade path 
to all existing users (which I am and I also do care for the Icinga 
community).

'nagios-plugins-2,0' should probably get a new package named 
'nagios-enterprises-plugins' or 'nagios-core-plugins' as already 
suggested in other distribution bug reports.

jm2c,
Michael



[0]  https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/news/new-project-name.html
[1] 
https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/archive/devel/2014-January/009417.html
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1054340
[3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736331


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