[adding package maintainer to CC] On 2023-05-17 10:50:34, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 08:58:01AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: >> On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 10:08:52AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> > > ISC is not longer maintaing any of the components of isc-dhcp (client, >> > > I propose to mark it as unsupported. Or at least, limited, if we still >> > > have hope in those security update exceptions they claim they could do. >> [...] >> > It's not a service to our users to claim that we will not support them. >> [...] >> > But I'm afraid that we will have to keep maintaining those for the benefit >> > of our stable/oldstable (and even ELTS) users. I'm pretty sure that all >> > the other distributions will also continue to maintain those packages for >> > the lifetime of their respective releases so that we will have >> > opportunities to share the workload and patches. > > Agreed. > >> Given what Raphael wrote, should this bug maybe be about marking isc-dhcp >> unsupported in trixie? > > My take would be to mark it as unsupported after the trixie development cycle > has started (this flags awareness, but has no impact on stable releases) > and then revisit the support situation before the trixie freeze (Kea might be > a full replacment by then or maybe it turns out the patch support is ensured > despite upstream's EOL)
I think this is important enough to warrant an entry in the release notes. I started working on something to that effect here: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/194 Hopefully that makes sense here? a.
