[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#990706: libsnmp-dev shall depend/recommend libsnmp-perl because mib2c requires it

[Jan Gorski]

Package: libsnmp-dev
Version: 5.9+dfsg-3+b1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

libsnmp-dev contains mib2c script which gives following output if libsnmp-perl
package is not installed:

|$ ./mib2c                                                   
|                                                                                                                     
|ERROR: You don't have the SNMP perl module installed.  Please obtain
|this by getting the latest source release of the net-snmp toolkit from                        
|http://www.net-snmp.org/download/ .  Once you download the source and
|unpack it, the perl module is contained in the perl/SNMP directory.                                                 
|See the README file there for instructions.                            
|
|$

After installing libsnmp-perl mib2c seems to start up properly (save for some
uninitialized variables warnings in SNMP.pm which are probaly upstream issue)
                                            
Could you consider adding appropriate dependency/reccomendation to the
libsnmp-dev package?

Regards
Jan Górski
													                                                 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (71, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libsnmp-dev depends on:
ii  libc6-dev                         2.30-7
ii  libnetsnmptrapd40                 5.9+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libpci-dev                        1:3.5.2-1
ii  libsensors4-dev [libsensors-dev]  1:3.5.0-3
ii  libsnmp40                         5.9+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libssl-dev                        1.1.1d-0+deb10u6
ii  libwrap0-dev                      7.6.q-28
ii  procps                            2:3.3.15-2

libsnmp-dev recommends no packages.

libsnmp-dev suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information