Re: ifupdown maintenance

[Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 02:13:26PM +0200, Daniel Gröber wrote:
> If ifupdown's paradigm were working for people we wouldn't be having this
> conversation.

Well, the problem is that there's a selection bias in people having this 
conversation--the people who are using ifupdown without issues aren't looking 
for a conversation about getting rid of it, right?

> How else would you move /etc/network/interfaces forward without breaking
> anything?

Just don't. If someone needs to do something new that's supported by a 
new tool and not ifupdown, they should just use the new tool. Freeze 
ifupdown functionality, mark feature requests as wontfix, and update the 
documentation.