Re: Sunset libvirt-snmp?

On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 10:32:42AM +0200, Michal Prívozník wrote: > It's been a while since libvirt-snmp was actively developed. Now it > receives only libvirt-ci related commits. The code compiles with > net-snmp-5.9.3 but the freshly released net-snmp-5.9.4 [1] breaks > compilation [2]. Now, libvirt-snmp has this crazy architecture, where > some sources are manually generated from src/LIBVIRT-MIB.txt, then > edited (added code to talk to libvirt) and then added to git. > > This is labor extensive and since I don't think libvirt-snmp is actually > used I'd like to sunset it. According to repology [3] only Gentoo (and > its clones) has the latest version (released ~5 years ago). And I doubt > it has any real users there. > > Thoughts? > > 1: https://sourceforge.net/projects/net-snmp/files/net-snmp/5.9.4/ > 2: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=912582 > 2: https://repology.org/project/libvirt-snmp/versions > > Michal > Per our private discussion Michal, Peter, and I concluded that archiving the project in GitLab is a harmless operation that can be undone at any point in time, so I went ahead and toggled the flag.