Hi Sven,
Sven Hartge wrote:
> The change to remove the fping6 binary breaks smokeping slaves on
> older Debian systems (and other distributions) for me.
Ah, I see.
I only have several independent Smokeping installations and haven't
found time to dig into how Smokeping slaves work. And in that setup I
only had to change self-written parts of the configuration to cope
with that change.
So thanks for making me aware of that issue.
> I think you need to provide this compatibility symlink in the package
> for at least the Buster release cycle, maybe even for the one after that
> so that scripts and multi-server environments can be migrated.
Yes, I fear so, as I don't see any other possibility at the moment,
either.
I though will have to think about how to actually implement this.
Maybe as additional binary package "fping6" which only needs to be
installed if Smokeping has older slaves.
At least I would provide a specific fping6 man page with not much more
than a deprecation warning. And an extended NEWS.Debian file.
Regards, Axel
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