check-deb-release 0.1.2

Check local debian version against a mirror and warn if a newer release is available.

check_deb_release

A Nagios/Icinga plugin to monitor the installed Debian or Ubuntu release against a specified target (e.g., "stable").

installation

pip install check-deb-release

usage

usage: check_deb_release [-h] [--mirror MIRROR] [TARGET]

Nagios plugin to monitor if the currently running release of debian matches the desired target distribution

positional arguments:
  TARGET           Default: "stable", supported: "oldoldstable", "oldstable", "stable", "testing", "experimental"

options:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  --mirror MIRROR  Debian Mirror to use as release reference. Default: https://deb.debian.org/debian/

contributions

Install locally:

• fork
• clone
• create/checkout feature branch
• optional: virtual env
• install uv
• uv sync --dev
• do work
• create pull request where all tests pass
• changes will be merged after careful review

Run tests:

uv run pytest

Works for:

• debian bullseye
• debian bookworm

Does not currently work:

• debian buster ~ due to broken dependencies for old python version