** 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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