[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#708983: closed by Hideki Yamane <henrich at debian.org> (Bug#708983: fixed in net-snmp 5.7.2~dfsg-6)

[Tom Nicholls]

On 25/05/13 13:57, Adam D. Barratt wrote:

> Ah, I see. This is a side-effect of the fact that hplip hasn't been
> rebuilt against libsnmp30 yet.

Ah, thanks - I wasn't aware that libsnmp15 was being deprecated. That 
makes sense.

 > This will sort itself out as the
> transition progresses, but in the meantime keeping the old version of
> the net-snmp packages installed would be the right thing to do in this
> case.

Thanks.

> Unfortunately this sort of thing will happen sometimes in unstable,
> particularly for packages involved in a transition.

Sure. A certain amount of package breakage is inevitable when tracking 
unstable. It just looked to me as if the fix on this bug was designed to 
prevent this particular dependency issue. Clearly not :-)

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