[Pkg-lustre-maintainers] [Pkg-net-snmp-devel] please fix net-snmp in debian

[Jochen Friedrich]

Hi Patrick,

> The point is:
>  - it is indeed only needed on kfreebsd-*, but it is not available on this 
> arches, not even in stable.. This package doesn't even exist in the debian 
> pool for any arch. 
> 
> This will make the package ftbfs on kfreebsd-* and will prevent the 
> migration of net-snmp to testing. If you like we can meet us at 
> #debian-devel.de to discuss things there (but then we should find a time 
> to meet there.. I'm most of my time in university.)
> 
> My suggestion is to remove the build-dep on libkvm-dev, since there is no 
> such package to depend on. 

I still don't believe this is true:

1. on the development machines for kfreebsd, the package is existing and
even installed:

GNU/kFreeBSD io.debian.net 6.2-1-586 #0 Mon Jan 15 09:06:23 CET 2007 i586

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jochen at io:~$ dpkg -l libkvm-dev
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                      Version                   Description
+++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
ii  libkvm-dev                6.2-1                     Development files for libkvm
jochen at io:~$ dpkg -l libkvm0
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                      Version                   Description
+++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
ii  libkvm0                   6.2-1                     FreeBSD kvm (kernel memory interface) library
jochen at io:~$

2. a problem on experimental patforms does not prevent a package to migrate to testing.

Currently, net-snmp indeed does not build on kfreebsd, but that's a different story, i.e. a bug in net-snmp (probably a
missing #include <net-snmp/agent/auto_nlist.h> in agent/mibgroup/hardware/cpu/cpu_nlist.c) rather than a missing package. [1]

Thanks,
Jochen

[1] http://experimental.debian.net/fetch.php?&pkg=net-snmp&ver=5.4.1%7Edfsg-4&arch=kfreebsd-i386&stamp=1195525300&file=log&as=raw