[pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#813339: breaking an essential service is bad enough, failure to document just compounds the error.

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On 2016-02-09 02:43, Craig Sanders wrote:
> making changes to how things work is reasonable and perfectly normal.
>
> completely failing to document those changes, resulting in broken
> servers (and, given that this is a dhcp server, broken networks) is not.
>
> there isn't even a single mention of this change ANYWHERE in the
> updated package, not in the /etc/default file, and not under
> /usr/share/doc/isc-dhcp-server.
>
>
> /usr/share/doc/isc-dhcp-server# find . -type f -exec zgrep -i INTERFACESv[46] {} +
> /usr/share/doc/isc-dhcp-server#
>
>
> i had to discover this change myself by running the init.d script with
> 'bash -x' (good thing i hadn't jumped on the systemd bandwagon - shell
> scripts are beneficial, not a hassle)...only then did i have enough info
> to figure out what the problem was and enough info to search the bug
> tracker.
>
> so, please, if you're going to make major changes to how something works
> then at least make some minimal effort to document the changes.
>
> thanks,
>
> craig
>
+1