Bug#824712: RFH: smokeping
On 2018-08-29 11:06:52, Gabriel Filion wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I've been doing some work on the smokeping package in the past few
> weeks/months with anarcat.
Yeah, and thank you for that! :)
> Namely,
>
> * a new upstream release was packaged and sent to experimental, and
> we're trying to get it into sid very soon.
Actually, it was uploaded to sid three days ago, so if all goes well it
should be in buster by the end of week.
> * I've written and submitted a patch upstream in response to a bug
> report in the BTS to make smokeping work better with newer versions of
> FPing (3.16+). It should make it so that the FPing probes doen't mix up
> IPv4 and IPv6 anymore with the recent versions of fping. This should
> land in a package real soon (it was merged upstream today)
This is already in 2.7.2-2, if i recall correctly, see also #905752.
> Future work that I intend to do is to get rid of as many lintian errors
> as possible, and then start working on the currently present bug reports
> in the BTS (from the easiest first).
Awesome! Note that some of those bug reports cover rather special corner
cases you might not have or might find difficult to deploy, namely
master/slave setups or using Smokeping as a more generic monitoring
system (à la Nagios, say). My approach, thus far, with the package, has
been to fix the stuff I use and accept patches for the rest, but not
necessarily go crazy in trying to fix the more exotic use cases.
> It is an invaluable learning experience for me since I'm new to debian
> packaging.
I hope you find this useful! :)
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Cheers!
A.
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