Debian as a supported Linux distribution?

[TBT]

Unlike CentOS, Debian has the capability of live in-place dist upgrades. For that very reason, has Nagios ever considered supporting the installation of your products under Debian and if not, why?

Thanks in advance.

[mcapra]

That sounds like a bit of a nightmare to maintain from a Nagios XI life-cycle perspective without a particularly robust set of regression tests. There's a whole lot of underlying components that prop-up Nagios XI.

I'm also not totally confident Core itself (or any moderately sized C project) could reliably survive dist/kernel upgrades every time they're done. I've had hand-rolled PHP builds blow-up in my face due to dist changes on Debian (granted I haven't really worked with Debian in ~3 years).

[scottwilkerson]

Unlike CentOS, Debian has the capability of live in-place dist upgrades. For that very reason, has Nagios ever considered supporting the installation of your products under Debian and if not, why?

Thanks in advance.

Yes, and it is coming. We believe it will be out in 5.5 but it must make it through all of the QA process.