Hello,

On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 12:42:04 +0100 (BST)
Nirina Michel <nmcratoandroman...@yahoo.fr> wrote:

> With debian sqeeze version, you have dhcp3-client installed.
> After 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to wheezy, the package dhcp3-client is
> kept. However, in wheezy, ifupdown expect to use dhclient from
> isc-dhcp-client package. The problem is the parameter difference
> between dhclient from dhcp3-client and isc-dhcp-client. dhclient from
> isc-dhcp-client accepts the -v parameter while dhclient from
> dhcp3-client doesn't.

If you update your dhcp3-client package, it will provide dhclient3 as a
symlink to dhclient

> - to add to the ifupdown package installation script to check the
> package isc-dhcp-client. May be add it as a 'depends'.

Not everyone needs a DHCP client, and those who want may not want it
from ISC. Therefore DHCP client is currently in Suggests field.

-- 
WBR, Andrew

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