#1107711 victoria-metrics: Please, split the binaries in two packages

Package:
victoria-metrics
Source:
victoria-metrics
Description:
fast, cost-effective and scalable time series database
Submitter:
Yanis Nury
Date:
2025-08-02 15:13:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1107711#5
Date:
2025-06-12 14:21:22 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

[ This is my first contribution to Debian and to an open source software
in general. ]

I just want to use only the vmagent part of the virctoria-metrics
package. But the entire package is overs 80MB and it's a bit too much
for me, Would it be possible to split the package in several binaries?

For example on one side, vmbackup, vmrestore, and vmctl which are more
like tools and the other side victoria-metrics, vmagent, vmalert and
vmauth which are more like services.

Thank you for your help.

#1107711#10
Date:
2025-08-02 10:39:55 UTC
From:
To:
"Me too" mode on.

Yes, this is definitely useful to have vmagent in its own separate
package with its own startup file, - without startig the database
itself.

Thanks,

/mjt

#1107711#15
Date:
2025-08-02 15:11:42 UTC
From:
To:
Hey!
I'd like to have these tools with integrated UI.
Due to the policy of storing necessary packages for compilation within
Debian, vmui and other vmutils web interfaces require many libraries
from npm. Are you sure it is worth using this approach without a web
interface?
I think this is one of the useful features of this software,
just like the web interface for Prometheus.