Your message dated Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:31:09 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#1143544: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #873133, regarding isc-dhcp-client: dhclient-scripts executes dhclient-{enter,exit}-hooks when it should not to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: isc-dhcp-client Version: 4.3.5-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I noticed that dhclient-script does not honor the executability flag of either /etc/dhcp/dhclient-{enter,exit}-hooks or files inside the directories /etc/dhcp/dhclient-{enter,exit}-hooks.d/ and will execute even non-executable files by sourcing them. This is not supposed to happen according to the dhclient-script man page. Quote from the man page: [dhclient-script] checks for the presence of an executable /etc/dhcp/dhclient-enter-hooks script, and if present, it invokes the script inline, using the Bourne shell '.' command. It also invokes all executable scripts in /etc/dhcp/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/* in the same way. The passage on the exit-hooks reads likewise. However, dhclient-script does not actually check the executability of any of these files. The run-hook function in dhclient-script only checks whether the argument is a file and then sources it, see lines 144-145 of dhclient-script: if [ -f $script ]; then . $script In addition, the run-hookdir function also iterates over files that are not executable, see line 162: for script in $(run-parts --list $dir); do The problem here is the list switch of run-parts. Quote from the run-parts man page: --list print the names of the all matching files (not limited to executables), but don't actually run them. It would be better to use the --test switch here instead which will only print the names of executable files in the folder without actually running them. Thus, a fix should be rather trivial to get dhclient-script to actually invoke executables only. On a sidenote, though, on my rather fresh installation of Debian Stretch, I have several files inside /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ that are not executable by default such as debug timesyncd rfc3442-classless-routes So, I'm wondering whether their respective authors actually meant them to be run by default or not. Regards, Timo -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client depends on: ii debianutils 4.8.1.1 ii iproute2 4.9.0-1 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libdns-export162 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u2 ii libisc-export160 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u2 Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client recommends: ii isc-dhcp-common 4.3.5-3 Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client suggests: ii avahi-autoipd 0.6.32-2 pn isc-dhcp-client-ddns <none> pn resolvconf <none> -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 4.4.3-P1-8+rm Dear submitter, as the package isc-dhcp has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1143544 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/. Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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