Dear Maintainer,

ISC started their next round of stable releases of kea in June with
version 3.2.0.

Please consider upgrading from the 3.0.x series that you currently use
in forky, sid, and trixie-backports to the new 3.2.x series.

3.2.x contains a number of fixes; and for me personally, it fixes the
VLAN issue that was reported in Debian bug 1061769
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1061769
Without this being fixed I'm stuck with using the deprecated
isc-dhcp-server package.

Thanks.

Jim Barber.

Hi Jim,

As Paride suggested in #1061769, would you mind filing a bug upstream so
this can be fixed in 3.0.x?

As we can see in https://www.isc.org/kea/, kea 3.0 is an LTS release,
supported until June 2028, while 3.2 is only supported until July 2027.

If by the time we have a forky soft freeze date announced we also have a
new release (e.g. 3.3) with the same support length as 3.0 (i.e., June
2028 or later), we can re-assess the idea of bumping the version of kea
in Debian. Until then, I'd personaly rather stick to the longer upstream
support version of the package.

Would you like to start the backporting discussion with upstream or
should I go ahead and file that bug?

Hi Athos.

Thanks for the information.
I didn't realise ISC Kea had LTS versions vs short term stable
versions. Of course it makes sense for youto stick with their LTS
versions.

I hunted around to try and work out how I'd start a backporting
discussion, but l got lost on their website and on GitLab where their
code seems to be hosted.
On GitHub I'd just raise a request in their Issues section, but I have
no idea where or how to initiate such a request on GitLab...

Perhaps I need your help on this, since I suspect you've dealt with them before?

Hi Jim,

You could file an issue in https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/kea/-/work_items

They are usually quite responsive to those.