Hi Cyril, Samuel,

On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 09:46:20PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]> (2026-01-05):
> > On Sat, Jun 14, 2025 at 02:05:20PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > > As far as I can tell, also the debian-installer is involved.
> > > 
> > > Contents-udeb-amd64.gz has this:
> > > usr/sbin/dhclient debian-installer/isc-dhcp-client-udeb
> > 
> > I have no idea what the status is here. Does d-i still use the 
> > isc-dhcp-client udeb? Can it be dropped?
> 
> Very quick note without checking the whole bug log or actual history…
> 
>     Package: netcfg
>     Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},
>     […]
>             isc-dhcp-client-udeb [kfreebsd-any hurd-any],
> 
> which would match my vague recollection: this was only ever a non-Linux
> port thing, while udhcpc (found in busybox-udeb) is used on Linux.

Thanks, I should have spotted that somewhere.

> Dropping would lgtm.

To avoid dropping it right now and breaking the hurd installer, 
maybe isc-dhcp-client-udeb can be ignored in the key package set 
calculation. Then src:isc-dhcp can fall out of testing when 
"possible".

Paul - can you take a look at that option?

Best,
Chris

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