On Sun 14 May 2023 at 06:54:25 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 11:00:23PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > [...] > > > 5.1.3. Noteworthy obsolete packages > > > > The following is a list of known and noteworthy obsolete packages > > (see Section 4.8, “Obsolete packages” for a description). > > [...] > > Now this one has more substance. It seems to me, though, that > upstream found maintainers and someone in Debian cares enough > to keep the package alive -- so it went from deprecated to > just non-default.
In 2009, the path ahead was outlined in: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/03/msg00780.html but I don't think some of the options (like wrappers) are under consideration after more than a decade of parallel working with ip. This opinion raised a chuckle in the lwn article: "But I'm not seeing any real advantage here. Sure, ifconfig doesn't support all the new networking features, but basic "ifconfig blah0 up" still works just fine. Cheers, David.
