On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 8:29 PM Andy Smith wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 06:36:28PM -0400, Lee wrote:
> > My understanding is that ISC no longer supports their dhcp client
> > software so the isc-dhcp-client package will go away someday?
> > correct?  & I suspect whatever works today will break when the new
> > software comes out, so I'd rather get a head-start on how to work
> > with the replacement.
> >
> > How can I find out who is working on what replacement?
>
> There was a fairly recent conversation on debian-devel over what to
> replace isc-dhcp-client with for the trixie release onwards:
>
>     https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/06/msg00184.html
>
> My understanding is that ultimately the choice will be made by the
> ifupdown maintainer, assuming that remains the default way to
> configure networking on trixie absent other dependencies.
>
> Unfortunately there does not seem to be a public response by the
> ifupdown maintainer jo...@debian.org in that thread.

Thanks for the info.  I was thinking about replacing dhclient with the
new whatever but I guess I can wait and burn that bridge when I get to
it

Best Regards,
Lee

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