Re: Expired ports archive key on current-hurd-i386 image

[Pirate Praveen <praveen@onenetbeyond.org>]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 5:52 pm, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> 
wrote:
> Pirate Praveen, le mar. 14 avril 2020 21:13:46 +0530, a ecrit:
> >  I'd like to try to use it for packaging some ruby and nodejs 
> > libraries as a
> >  test case, what would be the best way to share my feedback/basic 
> > things
> >  found missing? Like I was expecting auto-apt-proxy to work out of 
> > the box
> >  and also ip command.
>
> We are not really out of knowing what is missing, but much more on
> people actually working on what is missing.

ok, thanks for the reply.

> Concerning the "ip" command, this is a Linuxism, you can use the
> much-more-standard ifconfig from the inetutils-tools package.

I think from buster (on linux), ip is default and ifconfig is no longer 
installed as default. Also it would be nicer to have inetutils-tools 
use /etc/alternatives to provide ifconfig command instead of 
inetutils-ifconfig, may be I should open a wishlist bug.

> Samuel