[Bug 1936970] Re: [WIP] [MIR] libnet-snmp-perl as a dependency of amavisd-new

[Paride Legovini]

** Description changed:

  [Summary]
  
  Please promote bin:libnet-snmp-perl to main. It's the only binary
  package built by src:libnet-snmp-perl. The package is a "new" dependency
  of bin:amavisd-new which is in main. I say "new" in quotes because is
  was already a dependency, but d/control missed it up to version
- 1:2.11.1-5, see:
+ 1:2.11.1-5, see [0].
  
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=936052
+ [Availability]
+ 
+ Upstream: the project exists as NetSNMP since year 2000, but stems from
+ the cmu-snmp library which already existed in 1995. NetSNMP still
+ actively maintained as the git history [1] shows.
+ 
+ Debian/Ubuntu: libnet-snmp-perl was first packages in Debian in 2000.
+ 
+ It is extremely unlikely that the library will be abandoned or deprecated
+ in the foreseeable future.
+ 
+ [Rationale]
+ 
+ libnet-snmp-perl is a runtime dependency of amavisd-new, which is in main.
+ The packages is not in main already because it was not specified in d/control, see [0]. According to the upstream release noted [2] this
+ has been the case since version 2.6.4. Note that Precise packages version
+ 2.6.5 already.
+ 
+ The missing dependency is not immediately visible at such as it only
+ causes failures when using amavisd-snmp-subagent, a tool to facilitate the monitoring of the filtering system via snmp. The agent is shipped with
+ the amavisd-new package and therefore is in main.
+ 
+ [Security]
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ [0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=936052
+ [1] https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp
+ [2] https://gitlab.com/amavis/amavis/-/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES

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Title:
  [WIP] [MIR] libnet-snmp-perl as a dependency of amavisd-new

Status in libnet-snmp-perl package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  [Summary]

  Please promote bin:libnet-snmp-perl to main. It's the only binary
  package built by src:libnet-snmp-perl. The package is a "new"
  dependency of bin:amavisd-new which is in main. I say "new" in quotes
  because is was already a dependency, but d/control missed it up to
  version 1:2.11.1-5, see [0].

  [Availability]

  Upstream: the project exists as NetSNMP since year 2000, but stems
  from the cmu-snmp library which already existed in 1995. NetSNMP still
  actively maintained as the git history [1] shows.

  Debian/Ubuntu: libnet-snmp-perl was first packages in Debian in 2000.

  It is extremely unlikely that the library will be abandoned or deprecated
  in the foreseeable future.

  [Rationale]

  libnet-snmp-perl is a runtime dependency of amavisd-new, which is in main.
  The packages is not in main already because it was not specified in d/control, see [0]. According to the upstream release noted [2] this
  has been the case since version 2.6.4. Note that Precise packages version
  2.6.5 already.

  The missing dependency is not immediately visible at such as it only
  causes failures when using amavisd-snmp-subagent, a tool to facilitate the monitoring of the filtering system via snmp. The agent is shipped with
  the amavisd-new package and therefore is in main.

  [Security]


  
  [0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=936052
  [1] https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp
  [2] https://gitlab.com/amavis/amavis/-/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES

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