Package: debian-security-support Severity: wishlist Dear maintainer,
it would be nice if `check-support-status` provided machine-readable output. It seems the "NAGIOS plugin format" has become a kind of de-facto standard for these things, since it can be read by multiple monitoring solutions. For example: needrestart has the option `-p` which outputs relevant information in this format. Looking at https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagioscore/docs/nagioscore/3/en/pluginapi.html and https://nagios-plugins.org/doc/guidelines.html#AEN200 it would be pretty easy to make the current output compatible by prepending a line, like: OK - All fine | packages=0;;0;0 or WARN - Limited security support for one or more packages | packages=3;;0;0 but changing the return value might be considered a breaking change, so maybe adding an additional option (like needrestart does) might be the better way. Regards, Tobias -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.4.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de:en_GB:en_US Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages debian-security-support depends on: ii adduser 3.137 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.82 ii gettext-base 0.21-13 debian-security-support recommends no packages. debian-security-support suggests no packages.
