On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 at 20:00, Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 9:11 PM Santiago Ruano Rincón > <santiag...@riseup.net> wrote: > > El 19/06/23 a las 13:54, Martin-Éric Racine escribió: > > > Seeing how the ISC DHCP suite has reached EOL upstream, now might be a > > > good time to re-visit Debian's choice of standard DHCP client shipping > > > with priority:important. > > > > > > I hereby propose bin:dhcpcd-base: > > > > > > 1) already supported by ifupdown. > > > 2) dual stack (DHCPv4, Bonjour, RA, DHCPv6 with PD) with privilege > > > separation. > > > 3) writes both IPv4 and IPv6 name servers to /etc/resolv.conf > > > 4) supports /etc/resolv.conf.head and /etc/resolv.conf.tail > > > 5) a mere inet line in /etc/network/interfaces is sufficient to > > > configure both stacks. > > > > I agree that dhcpcd seems the best alternative to isc-dhcp-client for > > the moment, and I'll make the relevant changes in ifupdown as soon as I > > can. Josué, any thoughts? > > I've never had to do this before, so I wonder if moving packages to > severity: standard or higher (in this case, important) requires any > decision from the CTTE or a similar authority, before we proceed?
As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, there shouldn't be any need to change the priority, adjusting ifupdown's dependencies should be all that's needed. Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
