[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#911958: Bug#911958: nagios-nrpe-plugin: On large installations, check_nrpe logs are very spammy around nrpe packet version.

[Faidon Liambotis]

Hi Sebastiaan,

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 05:32:56PM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> > Applying
> > https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nrpe/commit/fe006d2556c906de84321188630ab0d25c317cc1
> > and
> > https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nrpe/commit/fe006d2556c906de84321188630ab0d25c317cc1
> > appear to resolve the issue in our installation.
> 
> These changes are unlikely to find their way into a stable update.
> 
> Install nrpe from stretch-backports if you need those changes.

Could you explain a little bit more your rationale about this? It feels
to me like a prime candidate for an SPU: serious issue affecting the
overall stability of the system, that has a tiny, safe and easily
backportable patch.

Regards,
Faidon