Re: Bug#355641: Getting rid of ucd-snmp (libsnmp4.2)

[Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 11:33:45PM +0400, Vladimir Volovich wrote:

>  JF> Currently, cheops is the only app still using this ancient SNMP
>  JF> library (at least on i386, cheops uses libsnmp9 on all other
>  JF> archs and in Ubuntu, as well). I'd really prefer to switch cheops
>  JF> to libsnmp9 for i386, as well and let libsnmp4.2 die its greatful
>  JF> death and remove it from etch. According to the upstream
>  JF> developers, there *might* be one final 4.2.7 release, but it's
>  JF> still not recommended due to the remaining 64-bit bugs and
>  JF> upstream maintenance will definitely stop here.

> just a note that the cyrus22-common package from http://incase.de/cyrus22/i386/
> also depends on libsnmp4.2

> that's how i noticed that Blars broke libsnmp4.2 when he uploaded
> version 4.2.5-5.1 ;)

> so could you please not remove libsnmp4.2 while cyrus22-common is
> still dependent on it?

No.  This is not a Debian package, it's irrelevant to this decision.

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