ti 11.11.2025 klo 15.10 Daniel Gröber ([email protected]) kirjoitti: > > Hi Martin, > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 01:55:18PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > Moving to ifupdown-ng is the strategy that was agreed upon among the > > > people > > > doing the work. Please refer back to > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/07/msg00098.html#:~:text=ifupdown-ng > > > for (some) reasoning and the DC25 Networking BoF for some more discussion > > > https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2025/DebConf25/debconf25-124-networking-bof.vp8.webm. > > > > The BoF wasn't accessible to many interested parties. > > If you watch the BoF you'll find no formal decisions were made, but people > got to discuss their high level concerns. > > We would have loved to hear your perspective but unfortunately you chose > not to join the BoF remotely. Keep in mind that despite lack of DC video > team coverage in our room Me and Lukkas scrambled to put together a video > call and recording setup last minute amidst a packed conference schedule > essentially just for you. > > You ended up choosing not to participate.
That's incorrect. Until the very last minute, it was stated that there probably won't be a remote possibility, even though someone would try to see on-site with the organizing team if this could be arranged after all. I never heard back on that. > We've discussed this before and you neglected to point out any concrete way > in which this is the case. I expect it actually fixes your issues with at > most minor changes in the compatibility code. > > Have you considered trying ifupdown-ng and reporting bugs to demostrate > your point? It's right there in the thread you quoted above. Santiago said that he agrees that -ng has a cleaner architecture but switching would require -ng factually being a drop-in replacement. It clearly isn't, as the older thread we had on that topic clearly exposed. Martin-Éric
