Hi Bernhard, I'm the net-snmp Debian package maintainer. On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 22:36, Bernhard Schmidt <be...@debian.org> wrote: > The old python-netsnmp bindings from src:net-snmp were Python2-only > and are now dropped from Bullseye/Sid. You could have also said the net-snmp python bindings were terrible and deserved to be deleted, but that's a kinder way of putting it. Really they suffered from bit-rot and had a lot of important features missing, python 3 being the most obvious one.
> python3-pysnmp4 is a pure-python > implementation that is said to be very slow and even the high-level API > is not easy to use (see the examples at I actually liked the API he used, but nothing is simple about SNMP. > Note that the upstream project is looking for a new maintainer and > appears to be quite dormant. There are issues with Python 3.7+, but a pull > request is available and has been verified to work. I don't intend to > upload to Debian until these issues have been resolved. SNMP projects seem to be hard to maintain. It's a fiddly protocol for sure. Anyway, if you need any help with the net-snmp library or just someone to bounce ideas off, I'm here. I don't want to maintain easysnmp but willing to help when it's needed. Hopefully, the upstream issues get sorted! Until we have more snmp libraries than IRC clients I say more the merrier! - Craig
