Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> writes: > Simon McVittie dixit: > >>You can still do this via manual configuration; as far as I understand > > Yes, but… > >>* the current Debian-specific persistent-net-generator scheme > > pitti wants to drop this; however, this is where we usually > do the manual renaming when needed. > > By all means, do your new thing, but don’t break things for > the people who wish to continue using persistent-net-generator > and for whom it works and who don’t have any problems with > the problems it has you outlined a few weeks ago. > > (Heh. I sound like I’m repeating myself every year now…) > > tl;dr: Just keep persistent-net-generator, even discourage > people from using it who don’t know what they’re doing, > but don’t remove it. So, is what you are asking for that rather than simply deleting 75-persistent-net-generator.rules, that it instead be moved to /usr/share/doc/udev/examples/ with a note suggesting that people not use it? Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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