(Sorry, I have forgotten to answer this)

El 09/06/23 a las 15:35, Antoine Beaupré escribió:
> [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.

Yeah, you are right. Sorry for my not-very-clever message, maybe due to
my disappointment of this deprecation.

> >
> > 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?
> 

Thanks Antoine for start working on the MR.

Cheers,

 -- S

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