Re: Bug#824884: netbase: should not recommend ifupdown
On Tue, 2016-05-24 at 11:43 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2016, at 10:01, Simon McVittie wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 24 May 2016 at 09:08:11 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Whatever we do, we absolutely must bring up a fully configured
> > > loopback
> > > interface by default.
> > Happily, our default init system already does that.
> We need to ensure any non-default ones also do that before we drop
> ifupdown from "recommends", because ifupdown + default
> /etc/network/interfaces is the fallback that ensures the loopback
> will be up.
We are not talking about removing "ifupdown" from the default
installation which includes all "Priority: important" packages (which
happens to include both netbase and ifupdown).
The only installations affected are debootstrap's "minbase" and
"buildd" variants: these only install "Priority: required" packages and
select extra packages (apt and, for buildd, build-essential). These
would no longer pull in "ifupdown" if "netbase" is installed.
Ansgar
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