On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 03:00:25PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 04:31:21PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:04:58PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > I've run with these patches for several months now, and they work
> > > wonderfully.  I get a DHCP lease far faster with these patches than
> > > without.  Any plans to apply these patches, and to change the default
> > > dhclient.conf to take advantage of them?
> > 
> > My general policy is not to deviate from upstream unless absolutely
> > necessary, so these patches should be sent upstream.
> 
> I understand, and that seems sensible.  Any plans to poke upstream about
> these patches?  Any upstream bug-tracking system to which someone could
> send these patches?  Or does "sent upstream" just mean "poke the mailing
> list and hope it doesn't get lost"?

I'm having lunch with upstream next week. I am planning on going through all
of the open Debian bugs as well as the ones I've sent upstream to determine
the status of them.
 
> > dhclient-script is obviously the exception, as it's Debian-specific. I'll
> > look at merging that patch in a future release. I'm currently concentrating
> > on DHCP 4.1.
> 
> OK.
> 
> - Josh Triplett
> 



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