[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Proposed removal of python net-snmp modules

[Craig Small]

Hi,
  For the next net-snmp release, I am proposing removing the python modules
that link to libsnmp.  There are many reasons for doing so including:
  * net-snmp is python 2 only bindings
  * net-snmp python is synchronous calls only, not asynchronous
  * net-snmp is horribly clunky in the way it works
  * The pysnmp module, as found in python3-pysnmp4 is vastly better pretty
much any way you look at it.

There are no reverse dependencies on the python-netsnmp package. While it's
hard to tell, I don't think it is used terribly much and if it is, that use
would be better served with pysnmp.

If someone knows about a Debian package needing this module, let me know
and I'll endeavour to work with the maintainer to port it across to pysnmp.

 - Craig

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