Bug#415021: ITP: pysnmp-se -- speed enhanced Python SNMP library for agents and managers

[Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>

* Package name    : pysnmp-se
  Version         : 3.5.2
  Upstream Author : Mike Fletcher <mcfletch@vextech.ca>
* URL             : https://sourceforge.net/projects/twistedsnmp/
* License         : BSD
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : speed enhanced Python SNMP library for agents and managers
   PySNMP is a Python implementation of SNMP v.1/v.2c engine; both 2.x
   and 4.x branches of PySNMP are available in Debian.
   .
   PySNMP-SE (Speed Enhanced) is a fork of the PySNMP 3.4.x branch with
   various speed enhancements, the most important being the replacement
   of string-based OIDs with tuple-based OIDs.
   .
   This makes PySNMP-SE slightly incompatible with PySNMP.

I'm packaging pysnmp-se only as a dependency of python-twisted-snmp,
which unfortunately hasn't yet been completely ported to python-pysnmp4
(and whose author is not currently interested in completing).

An alternative solution can be to include pysnmp-se in the
python-twisted-snmp package directly. I think the solution of packaging
pysnmp-se separately is better for a couple of reasons:

- the projects are split in separate upstream packages and have
  different upstream versions

- pysnmp-se packages have been made available also in other
  distributions (not really a reason, just an additional experience...)

Cheers.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)