Dear Maintainer(s), isc-dhcp has been flagged by Lintian as shipping a sysv-init script without a corresponding systemd unit file. The default init system in Debian is systemd, and so far this worked because a transitional sysv-init-to-unit generator was shipped by systemd. This is in the process of being deprecated and will be removed by the time Trixie ships, so the remaining packages that ship init scripts without systemd units will stop working. There are various advantages to using native units, for example the legacy generator cannot tell the different between a oneshot service and a long running daemon. Also, sanboxing and security features become available for services. For more information, consult the systemd documentation: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html You can find the Lintian warning here: https://lintian.debian.org/sources/isc-dhcp In case this is a false positive, please add a Lintian override to silence it and then close this bug. Thanks!
Dear Maintainer(s) of affected packages, these bugs have been open for more than 2 years now. Policy was updated to make units mandatory for system services. The removal of compat with sysv-init scripts from systemd has been postponed from trixie to forky, but it is now approaching. In approximately a month's time, this should hit unstable, if everything goes well. Therefore in order to ensure the remaining bugs do not fall through the cracks I am raising severity again, as there is a very high chance the affected packages will stop working as intended in about a month's time in the default setup. As already mentioned in the original bug report, if your package is not intended to work as a systemd service or under systemd at all, please feel free to downgrade or close+wontifx or anything else as you see fit. The severity raising is not intended to make anyone support scenarios they don't wish to support, but simply to ensure attention is given to the issue, even if just to close+wontfix. Also the bugs were opened based on Lintian reports, and it is possible that there might be false positives. Thanks for your work and understanding.
This issue still exists and breaks the package permanently in forky. No clue why the systemd file hasn't been included, as the one from ubuntu isc-dhcp-server (4.4.1-2.3ubuntu2.4) works perfectly when you create the dhcpd user and group. The Debian wiki (https://wiki.debian.org/DHCP_Server) reports isc-dhcp-server as the package to use to setup a dhcp server, so I would have expected this to have been fixed by now before things break. Work around: * take /lib/systemd/system/isc-dhcp-server.service from ubuntu package isc-dhcp-server (4.4.1-2.3ubuntu2.4) * create system user dhcpd with own group * systemd daemon-reload * enable and start isc-dhcp-server Either fix the package (ubuntu solution under a separate user is even better) or offer an alternative dhcpd and update the wiki.
Hi Jan, ISC DHCP is EOL and unlikely to make it into Forky proper: https://www.isc.org/blogs/isc-dhcp-eol/ Please switch to ISC Kea instead. Help such as updating the wiki would be appreciated