WTF is with dhcp?

[Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net>]

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=dhcp

- an important bug that makes the package virtually unusable for many 
(related to the run_dhcp setting which should probably move to 
/etc/defaults/dhcp) which is around 1.3 years old and counting (w/ patch!)
- 4 normal bugs > 3 years old
- 7 normal bugs > 2 years old
- 6 normal bugs > 1 years old
- 11 recent normal bugs

Presumably many of these bugs are dupes. Does anyone know why such an 
important package is in such a bad state? Are there many others like this?

- samj