[PKG-Openstack-devel] Bug#858565: neutron-l3-agent: IPv6 Stateless Address Auto Configuration (SLAAC) mode fails when radvd is not installed on the host

[Thomas Goirand]

On 03/23/2017 05:51 PM, Alberto Molina Coballes wrote:
> Package: neutron-l3-agent
> Version: 2:9.1.1-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> When a IPv6 subnet is created in SLAAC mode, neutron-l3-agent fails if radvd is not installed:
> 
> This issue is solved installing radvd on the network node, so please consider this package (radvd) as a dependency of neutron-l3-agent
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Alberto

Hi,

Unfortunately, not everyone wants to use IPv6. For those who don't,
imposing radvd as a hard dependency is a bad idea. IMO, it's best to let
every user choose what it wants to do to match its use case, and
manually install radvd.

We could add radvd as Suggests: though, but that is too late to ask for
a migration exception, so this change wont be in Stretch.

Your thoughts?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)