xfce4-sensors-plugin misses the netcat feature

[Panther]

xfce4-senors-plugin allows hard disk checking with netcat to the hddtemp daemon at localhot:7634. As this seems to be more reliable than checking the hard disk by suid binary, it is a wanted feature.

To enable it:
In the debian/rules files add "--enable-netcat" as such:
override_dh_auto_configure:
        dh_auto_configure -- --enable-libsensors=yes --enable-procacpi --enable-hddtemp=yes --enable-notification --enable-netcat
In debian/control add "netcat" as a Build-Depends and as a Recommends.
Rebuild the package with "fakeroot debian/rules binary".

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

I'm aware of this feature, but the current implementation isn't very good:
  * the configure script will try to run "netcat localhost 7634", which will fail on buildds, and so will disable netcat support on ubuntu/debian packages ;
  * host & port are hardcoded, so you can't use the plugin if you have hddtemp listening to another port.

[Panther (panther-physik)]

Can you just disable this part of the configure script? I do not see much use in it anyway. The hardcoded parts are bad, but if they are included, it would help most people interested in this package. Right now everyone, people with default configs and people without, has to build their own package.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.