Your message dated Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:28:13 +0000 (WET)
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and subject line Package dhcp has been removed from Debian
has caused the Debian Bug report #300498,
regarding dhcp startup script doesn't clean up pidfile
to be marked as done.
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300498: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=300498
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Package: dhcp
Version: 2.0pl5-19.1
Severity: normal
start-stop-daemon does not delete the pidfile it uses to identify the
process it is killing, with the expectation that said process will
remove the file on its own. This is not the case with dhcpd.
Therefore, /etc/init.d/dhcp stop is not safe in the case that dhcpd has
already been shutdown. start-stop-daemon will just attempt to kill
whichever process has been assigned the old pid.
I believe that this is a problem with start-stop-daemon, and have filed
bug #298585. However, as you can see in the discussion attached to it,
the dpkg folks believe that it is a problem with the script which invokes
start-stop-daemon.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages dhcp depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii netbase 4.20 Basic TCP/IP networking system
-- no debconf information
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Version: 2.0pl5dfsg1-20.2+rm
You filed the bug http://bugs.debian.org/300498 in Debian BTS
against the package dhcp. I'm closing it at *unstable*, but it will
remain open for older distributions.
For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/446386. That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed and suggestions of possible replacements.
Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.
Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
--
Marco Rodrigues
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