[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#983569: Bug#983569: net-snmp: please enable systemd integration

[wferi at debian.org]

wferi at debian.org writes:

> Craig Small <csmall at debian.org> writes:
>
>> Also, how confident are you writing unit files? I can write them but must
>> admit I don't fully understand some of the more exotic features such as
>> socket activation.
>
> My on-hands experience with socket activation is rather limited, but the
> concept is not new, inetd did the trick in a more limited way.  The
> technology is widely used and there's even a short snmptrapd.socket
> upstream, albeit with a somewhat confusing comment about matching.
>
> Aside, I'd recommend using Type=exec everywhere instead of (the default)
> Type=simple for the sake of better error reporting.

I opened https://salsa.debian.org/debian/net-snmp/-/merge_requests/8
with all these changes and more.  And with a new autopkgtest. :)

>> The net-snmp upstream seems to think you only should do socket
>> activation for snmptrapd only, but I think you are only targeting that
>> one anyway.
>
> Yes.

Turns out the upstream socket activation code does not include UDP.
I addressed that in the merge request as well.  Unfortunately this makes
the change rather bigger than I expected originally.
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Regards,
Feri