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Bug#554194: marked as done (ifupdown virtual package name and mass-filing (if accepted))

Your message dated Fri, 11 Aug 2017 12:44:51 -0700
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and subject line Closing inactive Policy bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #554194,
regarding ifupdown virtual package name and mass-filing (if accepted)
to be marked as done.

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Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, ifupdown@packages.debian.org

Hi all,

As you may or may not know, I've been working on an alternative
implementation of ifup and ifdown, which I call 'ipcfg', for a few
months now[1]. The code is now nearly at the point where I'll be using
it on my own laptop, at which point I intend to upload it to
experimental, too.

Since it intends to be an ifupdown replacement, and indeed provides
ifup and ifdown binaries, it will have to conflict with ifupdown. As a
result, I'll have to make sure that it can be installed as an
alternative to it, by way of a virtual package name.

As such, I'd like to propose the addition of a virtual package name,
"network-config-tool", that would be used for any package which provides
"/sbin/ifup" and "/sbin/ifdown" binaries. If accepted, I will also be
mass-filing wishlist bugs on packages that currently depend on ifupdown
only because they need to be able to use ifup and ifdown, or because
they have a versioned dependency on ifupdown to avoid certain bugs, with
a request to provide a "network-config-tool" alternative.

Thoughts, comments?

[1] The announcement and some more detail can be found at
    http://grep.be/blog/en/computer/code/ipcfg/announce

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control: user debian-policy@packages.debian.org
control: usertag -1 +obsolete
control: tag -1 +wontfix

Russ Allbery and I did a round of in-person bug triage at DebConf17 and
we are closing this bug as inactive.

The reasons for closing fall into the following categories, from most
frequent to least frequent:

- issue is appropriate for Policy, there is a consensus on how to fix
  the problem, but preparing the patch is very time-consuming and no-one
  has volunteered to do it, and we do not judge the issue to be
  important enough to keep an open bug around;

- issue is appropriate for Policy but there does not yet exist a
  consensus on what should change, and no recent discussion.  A fresh
  discussion might allow us to reach consensus, and the messages in the
  old bug are unlikely to help very much; or

- issue is not appropriate for Policy.

If you feel this bug is still relevant and want to restart the
discussion, you can re-open the bug.  However, please consider instead
opening a new bug with a message that summarises and condenses the
previous discussion, updates the report for the current state of Debian,
and makes clear exactly what you think should change.

A lot of these old bugs have long side tangents and numerous messages,
and that old discussion is not necessarily helpful for figuring out what
Debian Policy should say today.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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