>>>>> On Sun, 8 Jun 2025 13:51:05 +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff <[email protected]>
>>>>> said:
> We marked it as unsupported a long time ago, but whether this means
> that it not should not be part of trixie is an orthogonal question.
Thanks for this info.
So there's not strict rule to remove the package, esp. so late in the
release process.
I've collected some feedback from users of FAI that uses ISC dhcp, and
most are afraid of the complexity of KEA and only one started slowly
the migration to dnsmasq. See
https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2025-May/thread.html
I think the best solution for the users would be to not remove the
packages from trixie.
>> From my PoV this could also be handled by
> - tag #1106121 trixie-ignore
Perfect. Who can/should set this tag? The package maintainer or only
the release team?
> - maybe add a specific note to the release notes to make the lack
> of updates more visible than just src:debian-security-support
Also a good point.
> - update the package to just build the DHCP relay shortly after
> trixie is released (to avoid having the same discussion two months
> before the forky release). And remove it for good when a replacement
> has emerged for the DHCP relay.
I'm not sure if that helps, if it's worth to keep the dhcp relay but
not the server. The popcon of isc-dhcp-relay is 80 compared to 8000 for
isc-dhcp-server.
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regards Thomas
