On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 3:58 PM Santiago Ruano Rincón <santiag...@riseup.net> wrote: > El 20/06/23 a las 08:29, Martin-Éric Racine escribió: > > 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: > > > > Greetings, > > > > > > > > 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? > > > > 1) As someone pointed out in the thread, the reason why > > isc-dhcp-client had priority:important probably was to ensure that > > debootstrap would pull it, since debootstrap ignores Recommends and > > packages with a priority lower than standard. > > > > 2) However, as long as ifupdown explictly depends on a package, it can > > also pull dependencies with a lower priority. Right now ifupdown > > Recommends "isc-dhcp-client | dhcp-client" which debootstrap would > > ignore. It would have to Depends "dhcpcd-base | dhcp-client" instead. > > > > 3) At that point, swapping the priority of isc-dhcp-client and > > dhcpcd-base merely becomes "nice to have". Heck, the priority of both > > could, in principle, be optional, just as long as ifupdown explicitly > > Depends on a DHCP client, and the first alternative is a real package. > > I was about to bump dhcpcd-base as ifupdown dependency, but... if > isc-client-dhcp is a Recommends, is because not all users want a dhcp > client installed, where all the ipv4 is handled statically, and ipv6 is > done via SLAAC. As a user, I don't want/need to pull in dhcpcd-base the > next upgrade. > > So I'd prefer to go forward with the steps proposed by Simon, and > s/isc-dhcp-client/dhcpcd-base in ifupdown's Recommends: > Unless there is a strong objection, I'll file the override bug report.
The point has always been to ship some ifupdown-supported DHCP client by default. This can be done either by keeping the default client's priority to important or by making ifupdown Depends on one. I prefer the later. Martin-Éric
