On Tue, 2016-05-24 at 11:43 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2016, at 10:01, Simon McVittie wrote: > > > > On Tue, 24 May 2016 at 09:08:11 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > > wrote: > > > > > > Whatever we do, we absolutely must bring up a fully configured > > > loopback > > > interface by default. > > Happily, our default init system already does that. > We need to ensure any non-default ones also do that before we drop > ifupdown from "recommends", because ifupdown + default > /etc/network/interfaces is the fallback that ensures the loopback > will be up.
We are not talking about removing "ifupdown" from the default installation which includes all "Priority: important" packages (which happens to include both netbase and ifupdown). The only installations affected are debootstrap's "minbase" and "buildd" variants: these only install "Priority: required" packages and select extra packages (apt and, for buildd, build-essential). These would no longer pull in "ifupdown" if "netbase" is installed. Ansgar
