#907288 isc-dhcp-server: Package use "ps" command in the startup script, but "procps" is not a dependency of the package

Package:
isc-dhcp-server
Source:
isc-dhcp
Description:
ISC DHCP server for automatic IP address assignment
Submitter:
BhEaN
Date:
2026-08-05 17:34:18 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#907288#5
Date:
2018-08-25 22:30:06 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

I notice that isc-dhcp-server startup script (/etc/init.d/isc-dhcp-server) use
the "ps" command to confim if the daemon is running, but "ps" command is
provided by "procps" package, which is NOT a dependency of isc-dhcp-server.

If you try to install isc-dhcp-server in a server without "procps" package
(debian-min in Docker, for example) you always get an error when you try to
start the daemon, even if the service is started successfully.

Just add the "procps" to the package dependency should be work.

Thank you vey much, and regards from Spain!

#907288#10
Date:
2026-08-05 17:31:09 UTC
From:
To:
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/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

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