On Friday, September 15, 2023 3:38:05 AM EDT Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As you may know, the upstream author for pysnmp passed away last year.
> As a result, the whole suite was forked by "lextudio". I packaged it,
> and the result is this list of source packages:
> 
> python-pyasn1-lextudio
> python-pyasn1-modules-lextudio
> python-pysmi-lextudio
> python-pysnmp-lextudio
> 
> Appart from the OpenStack packages, here's the list of reverse
> dependencies for the old python3-pysnmp4 binary package:
> 
> * patator
> * pdudaemon
> * pysmi
> * snimpy
> * changeme
> * python3-snimpy
> * python3-pysnmp4-apps
> * python3-pysnmp4-mibs
> * snmpsim
> 
> My plan is to file bugs against these packages, asking to transition to
> the newer packages. We're just below the threshold for asking
> debian-devel about mass bug-filling, so I figured out I would only send
> a mail to the Python list. Do you guys approve my plan? Should we make
> transition dummy packages?
> 
> Also to Adam Cécile: can you make your pull request against the new
> Salsa repository?

Why did you hijack this from the Python team instead of just working with the 
existing maintainers to update the existing packages from the new upstream 
location?

Scott K

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