Bug#1082366: override: netplan.io:net/standard

[Lukas Märdian <slyon@debian.org>]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: netplan.io@packages.debian.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org, team+networking@tracker.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:netplan.io
User: ftp.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: override

Dear FTP-Masters,

Ifupdown is becoming an increasing maintenance burden and we need to move our
networking stack forward. Alternatives under active development, such as
NetworkManager, systemd-networkd and Netplan are used by default in parts of
Debian today (e.g. desktop/laptop installations, cloud images). Can you please
bump the priority of the "netplan.io" binary package to "standard", to enable
this hybrid network stack? It would consist of a common Netplan layer on top of
the systemd-networkd or NetworkManager daemons, and would become part of
debian-installer "standard system utilities" installations[1], as suggested
during the DebConf24 Networking BoF discussions. [2]

Find more details on "Why Netplan?" in the Netplan FAQ [3] and my proposal to
debian-devel: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/09/msg00240.html

Best,
  Lukas


[1] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/netcfg/-/merge_requests/9
[2] https://debconf24.debconf.org/talks/10-past-present-and-future-of-networking-in-debian/ ;
[3] https://wiki.debian.org/Netplan/FAQ