Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected] Control: affects -1 + src:dhcpcd User: [email protected] Usertags: unblock
Please unblock package dhcpcd [ Reason ] As someone found out during the soft freeze, a daemonized dhcpcd competes with network-manager and other network configuration tools for control over the network interfaces and resolver. Back when I took over maintenance of the package, I ended up spliting the init.d script and systemd unit into a separate bin:dhcpcd package precisely to avoid this. Apparently, that wasn't enough. I therefore just added a "Conflicts: network-manager" to bin:dhcpcd to further drive the point that having two networking daemons on the same host is a bad idea. This is the only change. Meanwhile, bin:dhcpcd-base remains perfectly harmless on hosts running systemd-networkd or network-manager, since it doesn't come with startup scripts and is instead executed via ifupdown or some other network configuration framework as per administrator configuration. [ Impact ] Without this fix, bug reports similar to #1107683 are likely to be filed after Trixie is released. [ Tests ] None needed. It's only a dependency change (Conflicts: network-manager). [ Risks ] No code change. [ Checklist ] [x] all changes are documented in the d/changelog [x] I reviewed all changes and I approve them [x] attach debdiff against the package in testing unblock dhcpcd/1:10.1.0-12
diff -Nru dhcpcd-10.1.0/debian/changelog dhcpcd-10.1.0/debian/changelog --- dhcpcd-10.1.0/debian/changelog 2025-05-08 21:47:28.000000000 +0300 +++ dhcpcd-10.1.0/debian/changelog 2025-06-13 14:09:46.000000000 +0300 @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +dhcpcd (1:10.1.0-12) unstable; urgency=high + + * dhcpcd: Conflicts: network-manager (Closes: #1107683). + This ensures that a daemonized dhcpcd and network-manager won't install on + the same host and compete for control of the interfaces and resolver. + Meanwhile, dhcpcd-base does nothing without ifupdown or network-manager's + dhcpcd backend, so it remains harmless on a stock Trixie install. + + -- Martin-Éric Racine <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:09:46 +0300 + dhcpcd (1:10.1.0-11) unstable; urgency=medium * [patches] diff -Nru dhcpcd-10.1.0/debian/control dhcpcd-10.1.0/debian/control --- dhcpcd-10.1.0/debian/control 2025-05-04 22:16:36.000000000 +0300 +++ dhcpcd-10.1.0/debian/control 2025-06-13 14:07:26.000000000 +0300 @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ Recommends: wpasupplicant Suggests: dhcpcd-gtk Breaks: dhcpcd5 (<< ${source:Version}~) +Conflicts: network-manager Provides: dhcpcd Replaces: dhcpcd5 (<< ${source:Version}~) Description: DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 dual-stack client (init.d script & systemd unit)
