On Aug 04, Gerhard Poul wrote: > The message in this bug might be interesting for you. (I hope so) > > I think this is really important for a distribution but some of the > maintainers seem to disagree with me in this point.
To summarize the bug: the logging behavior of the snmp package changed when we switched from CMU SNMP to the UCD implementation. Here's what I think: 1. I agree the change from CMU to UCD snmp should have been better documented. Perhaps the maintainer should have made it more obvious by calling the UCD package "ucd-snmp", as he named the source package. 2. However, I don't think it's a good idea for maintainers to gratuitously change upstream behavior. AFAIK you are the only person who has brought up the logfile format change as being a problem. Since the maintainer (David Engel) didn't know it was going to be a problem, I don't see how he'd do anything different. 3. You can always keep using snmp from stable if you prefer its behavior. Chris
