control: Documented some B-Ds and collectd-core suggestions.

[pkg-collectd.git] / debian / NEWS.Debian

diff --git a/debian/NEWS.Debian b/debian/NEWS.Debian
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--- a/debian/NEWS.Debian
+++ b/debian/NEWS.Debian
@@ -1,4 +1,14 @@
-collectd (4.0.0-1) experimental; urgency=low
+collectd (4.2.0-1) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  Prior to this version any plugin that has dependencies other than libc6 got
+  its own binary package. As the number of such packages was getting quite big
+  they have been merged into the "collectd" binary package and all plugin
+  dependencies were added as recommendations. See
+  /usr/share/doc/collectd-core/README.Debian.plugins for details.
+
+ -- Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org>  Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:38:21 +0100
+
+collectd (4.0.2-1) experimental; urgency=low
 
   This version introduces significant changes to the layout of the RRD files
   created by collectd. In order to keep your old data you have to migrate it.
@@ -34,5 +44,12 @@ collectd (4.0.0-1) experimental; urgency=low
   strings need to be surrounded by double quotes. See collectd.conf(5) for
   details.
 
- -- Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org>  Mon,  4 Jun 2007 00:41:32 +0200
+  Please note that there is no longer the need to load any plugins on the
+  server side just to be able to save values submitted by clients. All
+  required information are automatically loaded by collectd. You only need to
+  load plugins which are supposed to collect data locally.
+
+  See also: http://collectd.org/migrate-v3-v4.shtml
+
+ -- Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org>  Thu,  7 Jun 2007 17:36:58 +0200