On Jul 11, Vincent Bernat <ber...@debian.org> wrote:

> This is quite unfair. Cumulus tried very hard to make ifupdown2 a community
> projects, with notably a presentation at Debconf 14 and Debconf 16. One of
> its killer feature is the ability to go from the running state to the target
> state with one command (ifreload). It never took as we prefer old broken
> software over something not 100% compatible and also because it is written
> in Python and we didn't want Python in the base installation.
I agree, but I think that the dependency on Python has legitimately been 
a deal breaker.

> Since Cumulus has been bought by Nvidia, things have changed and development
> of ifupdown2 is now done behind closed doors. See
> https://github.com/CumulusNetworks/ifupdown2/pull/271#issuecomment-1706260260
And this pretty much closes the question.
(And makes me even more annoyed for having bought switches from Nvidia.)

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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