[pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#592539: Bug#592539: (isc-dhcp-server: supply additional initscript for IPv6 daemon): Yet another idea how to solve this issue

[Andrew Pollock]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:13:14AM +0200, Jan Wagner wrote:
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> Hi there,
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> On 08/15/2011 01:20 PM, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > I ran into this today, too, so of course I would be happy, too, if
> > one of the suggestions made in this bug report would make it into
> > the Debian package. :-)
> [...]
> > I though think that Florent Fourcot's solution is the most elegant
> > one and will probably implement it on my Squeeze based DHCP
> > servers.
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> > Andrew: Any idea if (or when) upstream will make DHCP for IPv4 and 
> > DHCPv6 work in the same instance of dhcpd?
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> is there any reason for not implementing this?
> 
> As the bug is 2 years old and the lifecycle of wheezy is actually
> planed ending anywhere in 2016, I'm asking me, if that is conflicting
> with the IPv6 release goal (which we have since Lenny).
> Looking into actual requirements in the field, it is needed to run
> DHCP-servers dualstacked for a long time, at least when wheezy will be
> released anytime.
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> So ... what is the showstopper for this (in my opinion) legitim and
> reasonable request?

Time mainly. If you can get an advance commitment from the release managers
that such a change would be allowed into Wheezy given it's frozen, I'd be
more inclined to try and make some time to make it happen now rather than
later.