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check-mk package

Any plans to upgrade soon?

Asked by R. Diez

The current Checkmk version 1.2.8 in Ubuntu 18.04 through 19.04 is no longer maintained, at least according to this page:

https://checkmk.com/cms_cmk_versionen.html

Are there any plans to upgrade soon?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Manfred Hampl suggests this article as an answer to your question:
FAQ #3037: “no rolling release”.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

If the version provided in Ubuntu is no more supported upstream, then a bug report should be created to make the developers aware of that fact.

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R. Diez (rdiezmail-ubuntu) said : 		#3

"no rolling release" is no proper answer. Are there no plans to upgrade in the next Ubuntu releases then?

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#4

1. What is wrong with "no rolling release" as title for a FAQ? If you think it can lead to misunderstanding, then the related FAQ should perhaps be updated. Please make a suggestion.

2. Ubuntu is taking over software from Debian (to avoid double packaging work).
As far as I can see Debian recently has packaged version 1.4.0p9 of check-mk in its "experimental" release.

If this version works well in Debian "experimental", then it will sooner or later be copied to Debian "unstable". And that is the moment when Ubuntu will take it over into its development version (currently 19.10).

I cannot predict whether this will be early enough before the publication of Ubuntu 19.10. Eventually this will then happen only for the next Ubuntu release - 20.04.

This is independent from the support life cycle of the upstream version.

3. As already written above, if you think that there is the need to upgrade the version of check-mk also in older Ubuntu releases, please create a bug report.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#5

Another comment to your request for a version upgrade of check-mk:

The current versions in Ubuntu have three known weaknesses, see https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/pkg/check-mk.html

You should mention these CVE-numbers if you create a bug report.

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R. Diez (rdiezmail-ubuntu) said : 		#6

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.