Re: ifupdown maintenance
Hi,
On Sun, 2024-09-15 at 23:07 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> 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.
> > 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.
Hmm, ifupdown has problems assigning addresses for the internet
protocol to interfaces. Is that something "new"? :)
(And AFAIR that includes assigning static addresses to a static
interface due to race conditions.)
> Freeze
> ifupdown functionality, mark feature requests as wontfix, and update the
> documentation.
Should non-trivial bugs also be marked as wontfix?
Ansgar
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