Main Inclusion Report for nagios-nrpe

Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/n/nagios-nrpe; available for all supported architectures.

2. Rationale:

   • Apart of the canonical-application-support specification

3. Security:

   • No CVE entries.

   • No Secunia history.

   • No binaries running as root or suid/sgid.
   • The server package runs the nrpe daemon.
   • Due to the nature of the software it accepts both incoming and outcoming packages and runs on port 5666.
   • It does not directly (not through a library) process binary (video, audio, etc) or structured (PDF, etc) data.
   • No source code review performed.

4. Quality assurance:

   • The package should always work out of the box.
   • No debconf questions asked.

   • Debian bugs: 547092

   • Maintenance in Debian is calm.

   • Upstream is vigorous.

   • Upstream bug tracker.

   • The package doesnt deal with any special hardware.
   • There is no upstream testsuite.

5. UI standards:

   • User-visible strings are internationalized using standard gettext system ?
   • Package with translatable strings builds a PO template during package build ?
   • End-user applications ship a desktop file ?

6. Standards compliance:

   • FHS and Debian Policy compliant

   • Packaging system (debhelper/cdbs/dbs) ? Patch system ? Any packaging oddities ?

7. Dependencies:

   • debhelper, openssl, dpatch, libssl-dev, lsb-base, adduser, nagios-plugins, nagios3
   • All are in main.

8. Maintenance:

   • nagios-nrpe is a simple package that probably not going to need alot maintenance.The Ubuntu Server Team will be responsible for the maintenance of it in Ubuntu

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/492340

ChuckShort