Package: cloud-init Version: 23.2.1-1 Severity: normal Hi,
as of v21.4-2, Debian's cloud-init has a hard dependency on isc-dhcp-client, while the isc-dhcp suite has been deprecated by the ISC (also see e.g. https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#deprecated-components). This makes integration/usage of cloud-init with e.g. dhcpcd impossible: | # apt install cloud-init dhcpcd | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree... Done | Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have | requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable | distribution that some required packages have not yet been created | or been moved out of Incoming. | The following information may help to resolve the situation: | | The following packages have unmet dependencies: | dhcpcd-base : Conflicts: dhcp-client | E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Quoting from https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/releases/tag/23.3, cloud-init doesn't seem to strictly depend on isc-dhcp-client any longer though: | network: support busybox micro DHCP client (udhcpc) alternative to | deprecated isc-dhcp-client. So while one can install udhcpc next to isc-dhcp-client in Debian (because they don't conflict with each other), it's not yet possible to use Debian with cloud-init, without having also isc-dhcp-client on the system. Please consider adapting the Depends for the new cloud-init version in Debian accordingly, so one can use e.g. cloud-init with udhcpc (which also allows co-installation next to dhcpcd), but without having to also have isc-dhcp-client present. -mika-
