On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 02:50:50PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > ifconfig, route, etc...
From https://packages.debian.org/stretch/arm64/net-tools/filelist * /bin/netstat * /sbin/ifconfig * /sbin/ipmaddr * /sbin/iptunnel * /sbin/mii-tool * /sbin/nameif * /sbin/plipconfig * /sbin/rarp * /sbin/route * /sbin/slattach * /usr/sbin/arp > Recently the net-tools maintainer has forked the abandoned net-tools > code base and started developing it again, after 15 years of stasis. > > As a design choice he has changed the output of most commands, hence > breaking many scripts parsing their output. > > With this post I want to encourage fellow maintainers to stop depending > on net-tools, which is obsolete software and has been replaced long ago > by iproute. > Can we stop shipping two network configuration CLI tools in the default > install? Who confirms that the other one is `ip` from the iproute2 package. > net-tools has long been deprecated and should not have important > priority, for a start. Without a replacement plan will net-tools survive some more releases. Thing what Andreas Henriksson is doing in https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/12/msg00619.html providing patches how to get rit of net-tools, is what will make the killing of net-tools more easy. Merry Christmas. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven
