I'd agree with that. In addition so many peoples own scripts rely on them that the user impact could be huge. That and every SA I know (and me) dislikes the ip tool with a passion.
Regards, Jon On Wed, 17 May 2017, 08:47 Daniel P. Berrange, <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:29:42PM +0100, James Hogarth wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It was pointed out on IRC to me tonight that there are actually a > > reasonable number of packages that still depend on net-tools[0]. > > > > This has been deprecated for a long time now and we really should > > strive to have everything use iproute2 instead so that there is no > > longer a need to keep the deprecated package about, other than if > > someone explicitly really wants netstat or ifconfig for some reason. > > > > Is the best way to handle this a mass bug filing? > > Converting apps from nettools to iproute is often non-trivial piece > of work. As such isn't really something Fedora package maintainers > should look to undertake as the risk of introducing regressions is > non-negligible. Bug reports really need to go the corresponding > upstream communities to get anything done. > > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > |: https://berrange.com -o- > https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| > |: https://libvirt.org -o- > https://fstop138.berrange.com :| > |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- > https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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