Dear Debian/Hurd, GNU/Hurd and Debian-devel people. This arrived today. Any ideas on how to proceed? Is it possible to create a Hurd-specific fork of the latest ISC-DHCP release? DHCP is an essential package in the Debian Installer.
Is it possible to do something at Debian level? The text below is from the DPL Stefano Zacchiroli latest news, from November 2011: Relationships with others ========================= - Thanks to the interest of Andrew Pollock, LaMont Jones, Florian Weimer and the Security Team, we are discussing with ISC to have Debian --- as a project, rather than as individuals who just happen to maintain ISC software in Debian --- become member of all forums relevant for software we distribute (BIND, NTP, DHCP). They are doing all the coordination work, but I've anticipated I'll be happy to pledge for Debian membership. If GNU/Hurd is ever to become one of the supported architectures in Debian, upstream portable software support is essential. The message below counteracts these aims largely :-( -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Cathy Almond via RT <dhcp-b...@isc.org> Reply-to: dhcp-b...@isc.org To: svante.sign...@telia.com Subject: [ISC-Bugs #25979] What happened to the dhcp patch in ISC-Bugs #24697 (Debian Bug #616290)? Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:57:03 +0000 Hi Svante, > Dear isc-dhcp developers. > > I am sorry to bother you again about this issue. Maybe this bug has > not > been closed yet due to lack of time, most people are very busy with > everyday life. As seen below, the patch for GNU/Hurd for isc-dhcp was > promised to appear in the latest release. Unfortunately it was not. > > The patch is of very large importance for GNU/Hurd since until now the > architecture is not supported. Additionally, the Debian maintainer is > reluctant to include this patch due to that a non-trivial amount of > code > is changed, and there are two new configuration files included too. > The > patch submitted to Debian bug #616290 in 3 March 2011 to 4.1.1-P1-17 > and > forwarded upstream, applies without problems also for the new release, > 4.2.2-1, from 10 August 2011. > > Thanks! I'm afraid that a mistake was made earlier when the response was given that we planned to incorporate the submitted patch for ticket #24697. This seems to have been due to an internal misunderstanding. Subsequently we've reviewed the patch and discussed at length the request to have it included and have to say that we have no plans to incorporate it in the near future. We have some technical reservations about the proposed change in relation to the effect they might have in other OS environments, and additionally we don't have a test environment in which to verify the stability/supportability of the resulting build(s) going forward. We receive a large volume of development work requests, and while we accept that this one is of importance to the gnu/hurd maintainers, we understand that the number of users of this OS is relatively small and we have to take this into account when deciding how to utilise our resources. So with regret for the disappointment that this answer will cause, our response has to be that this is not something that we can do now, although of course the decision can be revisited in the future if circumstances change. Kind regards, Cathy Almond ISC Support -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1323887379.12680.33.ca...@s1499.it.kth.se
