Re: Bug#762762: Updating isc-dhcp udeb to dynamically link bind

[Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org>]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> On 31/10/14 10:44, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>> Is it on kfreebsd, or on linux kernel too?  I wonder maybe we should
>> switch to isc-dhcp on all variants/arches, and ditch udhcpc...
>
> Linux d-i only uses udhcpc at the moment.  (Ubuntu uses isc-dhcp though
> IIRC).  We did discuss converging on a single DHCP client across all
> Debian architectures, but:
>
>   * it's way too late to do this for jessie, I doubt KiBi would even
> hear of it!  d-i can be very sensitive to changes and this might break
> in non-obvious use cases that don't get tested much

Is it possibly a one or two line diff to change back to isc-dhcp?  If
so, it is possible that it may be considered.  Is that set in netcfg?

Since isc-dhcp was the wheezy default and there are quite a few issues
(including RC ones) stemming from udhcpc, it probably makes a lot of
sense to go back to what's known to work well.

Best wishes,
Mike