[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#557434: libsnmp-base: Asks (with high priority) to download non-free bits on installation

[Jochen Friedrich]

Hi Vincent,

> libsmi2-common  contains  just  MIB.   Some packages  sets  an  explicit
> dependency  on this  package (wireshark-common  and  python-pysnmp4) and
> therefore should  suggests the future contrib package  that will replace
> it.

That's perfect.

>> I'm really into moving the MIB installation to a package in contrib. This
>> package should probably depend on libsmi2 as smistrip does a better job than
>> the script included in the net-snmp package.

Oops, my fault. Both smistrip versions are almost the same. Someone should
probably merge the patches from smistrip of net-snmp into smistrip of libsmi2.

> libsmi2-common also contains many more  MIB than the previous version of
> libsnmp-base but this is a lot of files that should be checked for their
> licenses. We could just package  a non-free package from libsmi2 sources
> with those MIB  (provided we do the license check).  This would allow to
> ship MIB  without downloading  anything. We should  just create  a dummy
> package suggesting the  non-free one and containing some  note about the
> necessity  to install  the  non-free package  to  get MIB.  Applications
> requiring MIB may depend on  this dummy package or suggests the non-free
> one.

If there is such a way, we should package the currently available MIBs. I
just updated rfclist from the list at www.simpleweb.org to get the newest
ietf MIBs.

By the way, would it make sense to build a SNMP task force (maybe on alioth)
and coordinate such stuff there?

Thanks,
Jochen
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