[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#1034781: Bug#1034781: monitoring-plugins-contrib: Dependency 'bc' missing for check_ssl_cert

[Jan Wagner]

Hi Johannes,

Am 24.04.23 um 13:10 schrieb Drexl Johannes:
> since a couple of versions check_ssl_cert uses bc to calculate floating
> point values. The commit was
> 
> https://github.com/matteocorti/check_ssl_cert/commit/6bedeb49bd1523a1d90adeb3ef21e46b7190aada
> 
> Hence now bc needs to go from the Recommends section of the package to
> actually being a dependency:
> 
> Depends: bc

looking into 
/usr/share/doc/monitoring-plugins-contrib/README.Debian.plugins:

Some plugins require additional libraries. To prevent you from having to
install dozens of further packages that you don't actually need, there 
is no strict dependency on those libraries. Rather, they are listed as 
recommenda-tions or suggestions.

apt-get(8) and aptitude(8) will install recommended packages 
automatically by default. If you did not disable this feature you will 
have everything in place to operate all plugins when installing the 
"nagios-plugins-contrib" package.
Else you have to install missing dependencies manually (see the section 
"Plugin dependencies" below).

So it's intention that bc is "just" a Recommend. See 
https://salsa.debian.org/nagios-team/nagios-plugins-contrib/-/commit/013199bb350af8e2a91213ecb1fc168d37405d94 
for this.

With kind regards, Jan
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