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Re: base-files: please ship /etc/networks and include "link-local 169.254.0.0" to it



On Nov 19, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:

> > I'd like to receive comments about:
> > - shipping /etc/networks in netbase
> > - adding 169.254.0.0 to it
> The second makes sense to me.
I am not sure. For a start, I would need to add *all* /24 in the
link-local networks space since /etc/networks comes from a pre-CIDR
world.
And I am not sure about which modern software still uses the file.

>  Why would moving it to base-files make
> sense, though?
We are discussing adding it to netbase, indeed.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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