ifupdown package interfaces include function

[Sébastien Riccio <sr@swisscenter.com>]

Hi,

While "trying" to port the Xen (xapi) network reconfiguration scripts to 
debian for the project "Kronos",
I was looking if there was a way to use includes in the 
/etc/network/interfaces file, for example
/etc/network/interfaces.d/*

I found this "bug" report that is talking exactly about what I'm looking 
for and provides patches
If i'm right it seems it has been closed and merged in ifupdown-0.7~alpha4.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=159884

But, is it supposed to be working ?

I just tried with an interfaces file like this:
---
# DO NOT EDIT: This file was autogenerated by interface-reconfigure
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
---

and it doesn't seems to load the files in that directory.

The package version installed on my box is:
ifupdown                          0.7~alpha5+really0.6.15           high 
level tools to configure network interfaces

Thanks for your help.

Sébastien