version 4.3.0~beta3 or higher

[Arie Skliarouk]

Both Lucid (10.04) and Precise (12.04) still provides xymon-client of version 4.3.0~beta2.dfsg-9.1, whereas version 4.3.7 is already available.

Please package latest version.

Also, It would be nice if lucid's version can be updated to version 4.3.0 as it fixes issues when corrupt client data cause false alarms to be sent: http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2011-January/030317.html

[Axel Beckert (xtaran)]

A 4.3.7 package is in progress for Debian.

[Axel Beckert (xtaran)]

4.3.7-1 has been uploaded to Debian Experimental.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

This bug was fixed in the package xymon - 4.3.7-1

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xymon (4.3.7-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (Closes: #622574, LP: #1017868)

  [ Christoph Berg ]
  * Acknowledge and incorporate NMU by gregor herrmann
  * Remove indep rules (left-overs from transitional packages)

  [ Axel Beckert ]
  * Add myself to Uploaders
  * Recommend a CGI-capable web server, defaulting to apache2
  * Update Homepage header to point to http://xymon.sourceforge.net/
  * Make git repo git-buildpackage capable
    + Ignore upstream's debian directory when importing upstream sources
    + No more have upstream sources listed in .gitignore
  * Remove the following patches (applied upstream):
    + new-menu
    + hobbitd-rrdparameters
    + 530227-hobbitclient-bashism
  * Add new patch fix-configure-for-multiarch (Closes: #639080)
  * Refreshed the following patches and partially added one-liner comments
    to make lintian happy:
    + htmlcontenttype
    + doc-paths
    + hobbitclient-debian
    + hobbitvars
    + hobbitgraph.netstat
    + hobbit-ghosts-menu
    + rrd_net_granularity
    + hobbitgraph.mailq
    + hobbitclient-tmpfs
    + hobbit_files_ifexist
    + 580493-negative-timeoffset
    + kfreebsd-makefile
    + bbcombotest-fix
    + 622069-sslv2-deprecation
  * Remove remaining traces of the debian-specific menu
    + Remove note about rebuilt upstream tarball from debian/copyright
    + Remove the menu from debian/rules, debian/xymon.install, etc.
  * Move from /etc/hobbit/ to /etc/xymon/.
    + Add xymon.NEWS entry and new xymon-client.NEWS file.
    + Install upgrade-to-430.txt and Renaming-430.txt as documentation
    + Install some files from xymond/etcfiles as examples
    + Adapt paths, variable names, etc. in debian/* accordingly.
    + Add pre-dependency on ${misc:Pre-Depends} for *.maintscript
    + Install upstream's migration tools to /usr/lib/xymon/server/libexec/
      and upstream's migration documentation to /usr/share/doc/xymon/
    + Stop old Hobbit daemons earlier, reload Apache later
    + Kill remaining vmstat processes and then delete user+group hobbit
      after chowning+chgrping files to xymon. Don't bail out if that fails.
    + At the end, remove all _empty_ directories in /etc/hobbit/ and
      possibly /etc/hobbit itself.
    + Rename data, history and rrd files according to Renaming-430.txt
    + Bump debhelper build dependency to >= 8.1.0~
    + Breaks hobbit-plugins < 20120619
    + Export DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE and DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_NAME in all
      maintainer scripts manually to make reconfiguring work with older
      debconf versions (cf. #560317, present on Squeeze)
  * Enabled hardening build flags
    + Bump dpkg-dev build dependency to >= 1.16.1~
  * Update debconf po templates for Hobbit → Xymon rename
  * Replace last hardcoded occurrence of pid file name in init.d script
  * Fix enforcement of non-parallel builds
  * Let dh_clean do all the clean up, no more calling rm in clean target
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.3 (no changes)
  * Mention OpenSSL linkage exception from upstream's README file in
    debian/copyright (fixes lintian error
    possible-gpl-code-linked-with-op...

[Arie Skliarouk (skliarie)]

Sources of version 4.3.7 compiled perfectly on ubuntu 10.04. Version 4.3.7-1 bumped requirements for bunch of packages:

dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: debhelper (>= 8.1.0~) libssl-dev (>= 1.0.0e-1~) libldap2-dev (>= 2.4.25-2~) libpcre3-dev (>= 8.12-4~) dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1~)

Can I safely override these dependencies and build 4.3.7-1 on lucid?

[Axel Beckert (xtaran)]

Hi Arie,

Arie Skliarouk wrote:
> Sources of version 4.3.7 compiled perfectly on ubuntu 10.04. Version
> 4.3.7-1 bumped requirements for bunch of packages:
>
> dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: debhelper (>= 8.1.0~)
> libssl-dev (>= 1.0.0e-1~) libldap2-dev (>= 2.4.25-2~) libpcre3-dev (>=
> 8.12-4~) dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1~)
>
> Can I safely override these dependencies and build 4.3.7-1 on lucid?

Not all of them. The library versions can be overriden, those are
mainly for the multi-arch bump (which is irrelevant in Lucid).

The recent dpkg-dev is necessary for the tools used for the
/etc/hobbit -> /etc/xymon migration (mostly dpkg-maintscript-helper)
and IIRC there's a similar reason for the debhelper version. Not sure
if they're available as backports for Lucid.

Have a look at the bpo60 branch in git at
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/xymon.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/bpo60
-- especially at this commit:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/xymon.git;a=commitdiff;h=aecec653a

  Regards, Axel
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