On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 03:39:52PM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > 5. And finally: why is this even done? I simply don't see the point of > doing this... The commit message in git doesn't describe the need for > this change, and I can't imagine any scenario for this: snmp contains a > bunch of client utilities and shouldn't have anything directly to do > with the SNMP server, so why start killing the server process and > subagents it started? Especially if the server isn't restarted in > postinst. I just don't get it.
> The way I see it, it would probably best to just revert this change. > But if for some reason in some corner case snmpd actually has to be > restarted when the snmp package is installed, then please do that with > invoke-rc.d (and also restart it in postinst) and not with killall -u. Looks like this was done in response to https://launchpad.net/bugs/573391 in Ubuntu, and Debian merged that change. But since http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-net-snmp/pkg-net-snmp.git/commit/debian/snmpd.postinst?id=d96adf57b662ca601f9c4deb0a7a43e679272fcb deluser isn't even called any more. So I don't think the killall is necessary anymore anyway, but I'd like someone to review this. Robie
