Hi, On Sun, 2024-09-15 at 23:07 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 02:13:26PM +0200, Daniel Gröber wrote: > > If ifupdown's paradigm were working for people we wouldn't be having this > > conversation. > > How else would you move /etc/network/interfaces forward without breaking > > anything? > > Just don't. If someone needs to do something new that's supported by a > new tool and not ifupdown, they should just use the new tool.
Hmm, ifupdown has problems assigning addresses for the internet protocol to interfaces. Is that something "new"? :) (And AFAIR that includes assigning static addresses to a static interface due to race conditions.) > Freeze > ifupdown functionality, mark feature requests as wontfix, and update the > documentation. Should non-trivial bugs also be marked as wontfix? Ansgar
