Re: Bug#1106121: isc-dhcp - EOL and not security supported

[Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org>]

On 2025-05-22 20:46:34 +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> Control: severity -1 serious
> 
> On 2025-05-22 15:04:43 -0300, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote:
> > Control: severity -1 important
> > 
> > El 19/05/25 a las 22:26, Bastian Blank escribió:
> > > Source: isc-dhcp
> > > Version: 4.4.3-P1-7
> > > Severity: serious
> > > X-Debbugs-Cc: waldi@debian.org
> > > 
> > > isc-dhcp is EOL and marked as not security supported.  It should not be
> > > released with trixie.
> > > 
> > > See
> > > https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2022-October/022786.html
> > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1035972
> > > 
> > > Bastian
> > 
> > While I consider that users of isc-dhcp-{client,server} should migrate
> > to alternative implementation, I think it is too late now to ask for the
> > removal of isc-dhcp, being so close to release trixie.
> > 
> > It is to note that, TTBOMK, there is currently no substitute for
> > isc-dhcp-relay.
> > 
> > https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#deprecated-components
> > reads:
> > 
> > "The security team will support the isc-dhcp package during the bookworm
> > lifetime, but the package will likely be unsupported in the next stable
> > release, see bug #1035972 (isc-dhcp EOL'ed) for more details."
> > 
> > That doesn't mean that it will be remove in trixie.
> 
> It's dead. Except for fai-quickstart all reverse dependencies have MRs.

Okay, only libguestfs has a MR. But still …

> I am all for getting it removed.
> 
> Cheers
> -- 
> Sebastian Ramacher

-- 
Sebastian Ramacher