[rt-users] Debian package status

[linux at muellers.ms]

Hello Dominic,

Thanks a lot for your work!

I am running 4.0.7-4 fine on Debian 7.0 wheezy.

But what I am missing is the possibility to have multiple instances (prod/test)
and multiple versions, e.g. I am now very much interested in 4.0.10 but of course if first want to test it.

Is there perhaps an unofficial 4.0.10 dep repository somewhere ?
Is it complicated to build a new deb if there is a new upstream version ?

About the multiple version and instances, the Open Monitoring Distribution 
http://omdistro.org/ solved this very nice for nagios and friends,
i wish something like that would exist for rt as well.

jo


> The good news is that Debian backports now has 4.0.7 (I've just
> uploaded 4.0.7-4~bpo60+1 which has a few extra fixes compared to
> 4.0.7-2~bpo60+1). The bad news is that since Debian is in freeze,
> 4.0.9 or above won't be hitting Debian any time soon (except possibly
> experimental, if someone asks nicely :)
> 
> However, I do encourage people who are using the Debian packages to
> report bugs that affect them to the BTS even if they are fixed in newer
> upstream releases; if they seem serious enough, it's still possible
> to fix important bugs in Debian before the release.
>