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[Paride Legovini <1936970@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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