On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 02:01:37PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > Well surely the question is: why are the files moved to a different > directory ? Why is the package renamed, even ? Do we need to be able > to co-install the old and new ISC DHCP clients ?!
The original dhcp-client was version 2. dhcp3-client was version 3. These used /etc/dhcp and /etc/dhcp3, IIRC. Someone realized that using version numbers in the name was probably a bad idea, and that dhcp-client was too generic a package name (there are many DHCP clients in Debian). The idea was to abandon the old name and instead choose a new name that was not so generic and at the same time, install the new, version 4 client, using /etc/dhcp. Co-installability was not considered important and thus the transitional package was created so that people will have a working DHCP client. If I'm wrong about any of this, I'm sure Andrew will correct me. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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