On 2016-12-27 09:15 +0100, Andrew Shadura wrote: > While I can certainly agree parsing net-tools output isn't a good idea, please > stop suggesting we should remove the package from Debian. It is still useful > and many people myself included use it. Right, I use it most days. For those of us of a certain vintage this is the networking tool we know. The chap who gave a talk at the UK miniconf about updated functionality in /etc/network/interfaces and ifconfig and friends got rapturous applause, so I'm not the only one that finds this useful. If we are supposed to change to something newer these days, a pointer to a 'conversion' document would be nice. I am (vaguely) aware of something caled 'ip' which does a similar job but have no idea how to use it. Like Andrew I don't like the tone of these 'get rid of this crap' messages. It may not be your tool of choice, but it is some people's (probbly quite a lot of people still) and I'm very happy that it's there by default as networking-furtling is something one is often doing on a bare system. If there is a desire to change the default package I'd like to see a little more discussion about that. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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