Re: WTF is with dhcp?

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net> cum veritate scripsit:

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

[list of 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?

This reminds me, it would be nice if there was some tag/virtual package
that provides a "dhcp-client"

"pump", although unobvious from the name, is a dhcp client that
seems to be widely used.
And of course, the linux kernel itself has some capability of being
the dhcp client, I believe.


regards,
	junichi
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