Dear maintainer(s)!

Attached you will find a patch which includes (nearly) all of the patches the Fedora people included in their distribution of isc-dhcp, pulled from this location:
git://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/dhcp.git
It includes all patches up to rev. f4e9ae9e62a8e9a19c77d98c196256b4075a99d9  , tagged "dhcp-4.3.5-1.fc25"

So far, this has been done:
* Debian patches have been applied on top of the Fedora patches (or: Fedora first, Debian second)
* redundant patches have been eliminated
* build system patches have been modified following Debian precedent (Debian uses a packetized version of the ISC libraries, Fedora statically includes the relevant functionality)
* patches have been modified so they apply and the packages can be built

The patch attached applies against the contents of "isc-dhcp_4.3.5-3.debian.tar.xz", as downloaded today from "http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/isc-dhcp/isc-dhcp_4.3.5-3.debian.tar.xz" .
Packages build successfully, the programs run.

The reason I did this work was to include a _working_ implementation of DHCP over InfiniBand fabrics (RFC 4390), pieces of hardware quite common in an HPC environment. However, I failed at extracting the exact single patch(es) doing this, so I went for all of them. I'm happy to report success, the modified version is now running for quite some time; server and client act in a correct fashion, on both ethernet and InfiniBand.


I sincerely hope that this is useful to you. Please let me know what needs to be done so this can be included in Debian's next release.


Yours sincerely,
Sebastian

Hi Sebastian,

Historically when I was actively maintaining Debian's DHCP package, I was
resistant to having Debian's source wildly diverge from upstream (basically
I'm anti-forking just for the sake of it). Have you contributed any of these
patches back to ISC for inclusion in a future release?

regards

Andrew

control: tag -1 -patch
control: tag -1 upstream
control: forcemerge 786350 -1

I agree with Andrew, there is no way that this will be accepted as is.
Ubuntu includes an infiniband patch in their packages if you're
interested, but it changes way too much.  The only way this is getting
into the debian packages is if someone does the work to get it
included upstream first.

Best wishes,
Mike

control: tag -1 -patch
control: tag -1 upstream
control: forcemerge 786350 -1

I agree with Andrew, there is no way that this will be accepted as is.
Ubuntu includes an infiniband patch in their packages if you're
interested, but it changes way too much.  The only way this is getting
into the debian packages is if someone does the work to get it
included upstream first.

Best wishes,
Mike

Dear submitter,

as the package isc-dhcp has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1143544

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

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