Hi Philipp, El 08/03/23 a las 10:45, Philipp Hahn escribió: > Hello Ansgar, > > Am 07.03.23 um 20:26 schrieb Ansgar: > > On Tue, 2023-03-07 at 11:55 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > On Mar 07, Philipp Hahn <pmh...@pmhahn.de> wrote: > > > > Is it a good idea to keep it alive for another 2+ years in > > > > Debian-12-Bookworm or should it be removed now? > > > > https://packages.debian.org/source/bookworm/isc-dhcp > >> > > > I do not think that it should be removed at this point, since there is > > > a need for the complex features that isc-dhcpd can provide and there are > > > is no obvious replacement: Kea is super complex (and I do not know if it > > > has all the features) and everything else is too much simple. > > > > Only the client and relay are no longer maintained upstream. The server > > is still maintained and there is no need to drop it from Debian. > > Are you sure the *server* is still maintained? Sadly my quote from > <https://www.isc.org/dhcp/> got dropped, so here again:
From README:
RELEASE STATUS
Version 4.4.3-P1 is a maintenance release of the DHCP client, relay and
server. It is the final release for the client and relay components,
which have reached end-of-life and will no longer be maintained.
>
> > ISC has announced the end of life for ISC DHCP as of the end of 2022. ISC
> > will continue providing professional support services for existing
> > subscribers, but does not intend to issue any further maintenance releases.
You can still read an equivalent sentence from the dhcp upstream url:
"DHCP is available for free download under the terms of the MPL 2.0
license. The client and relay portions of ISC DHCP are no longer
maintained."
>
> Previously ISC announced EoL *only for client and relay*, but — at least for
> my reading of the above statement — they no longer do and *ended all of
> DHCP*. Or do we (Debian) have access to that "professional support services"
> to get future patches we can apply?
>
> Do we do our users a service by keeping that dead horse alive for another 2+
> years? While being quite stable it had a steady stream of security issues:
> <https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/isc-dhcp>
>
> Philipp
>
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