[Pkg-Cyrus-imapd-Debian-devel] libsnmp-dev dependency

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

I will be asking questions and proposing changes instead of commiting them
half-assed for now, so please bear with me.

Is there a good reason why the code in trunk is build-depending on
libsnmp4.2-dev?  That thing is outrageously old, and unlike cyrus 2.1, 2.2
builds fine against NetSNMP 5 (in fact, I bet I could get 2.1 to do so too,
if so inclined -- but hell will freeze over first :-) ).

Updating the dependency to libsnmp9-dev (unstable/testing) and libsnmp5-dev
(sarge) is the right way to go IMHO.  The package builds fine.

Any of you guys is *actually* using the SNMP agent-x functions?  Have you
guys stress-tested them?  Last time I debugged those I nearly went ballistic
over the amount of crap upstream libsnmp had in that stuff (which was so
utterly broken it was not funny).  Since then, I have always wondered if it
would not be best to just skip compiling agent-x snmp support in Cyrus.

The first thing that killed agent-x support for my needs was that if you
restarted snmpd for any reason, you'd need to restart cyrus to get the
agent-x connection going again.  The broken tcpwrappers shit in libsnmp was
just icying in the cake (and I *sure* hope nobody enabled that crap again in
the Debian packages).

-- 
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  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh