Bug#308563: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#308563: nagios-pgsql: Includes MySQL docs etc

Turbo Fredriksson Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>, 308563@bugs.debian.org
Thu, 12 May 2005 18:43:34 +0200


Quoting sean finney <seanius@debian.org>:

> hey turbo,
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:48:13PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
>> Yeah, I saw that later on. But that actually makes things WORSE,
>> not better!
>> 
>> A 'common' package is for stuff that applies to ALL packages in
>> the group it's for (nagios-{pgsql,mysql,text} in this case).
>> 
>> The *mysql* stuff does NOT apply to the pgsql package and vise
>> versa...
>> 
>> Conclution: The common package should NOT contain ANY database
>>             specific documentation etc..
>
> i'm not really convinced on this.  nagios-common is imo not only
> the arch independant files as you suggest, but also a documentation
> package as well (because i can't justify to myself a seperate
> nagios-doc package).  

That's perfectly ok, but you should put README.mysql and create_mysql
in the -mysql package and the README.pgsql create_pgsql in the -pgsql
package. All files should install in the /usr/share/doc/nagios-common/
directory as usual.


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