Debian Bug report logs - #786902
ITA: ifupdown -- high level tools to configure network

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andrew Shadura <andrewsh@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: O: ifupdown -- high level tools to configure network interfaces

Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 17:45:22 +0200

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Hello,

This is that time of the year when I finally need to orphan ifupdown
package. It's been quite some time already since I first thought about
this, and I have finally understood I have no intent to maintain this
package any more. I stopped using it myself about a month ago, and I
doubt I will really work on improving it any further.

In current state ifupdown is probably good enough for what it is used
for, except a few bugs. For advanced uses, it seems, Python-based
ifupdown2 may become a good alternative in the future, and some simpler
things wicd, NM and systemd-network probably do things just well.

So if anyone wants to take this package over and maintain it, go
ahead :) If that doesn't happen soon, I will probably still do some QA
uploads from time to time, but I can't promise anything really.

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrew

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Message #10 received at 786902@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: roopa <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>

To: 786902@bugs.debian.org

Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 05:21:21 -0700

We would love to keep ifupdown alive and very interested in submitting 
ifupdown2 as an alternative to ifupdown.

Message #15 received at 786902@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com>

To: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>

Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, 786902@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#786902: O: ifupdown -- high level tools to configure network interfaces

Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 23:22:35 +0200

On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 22:12 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 20:50 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: 
> > I don't think ifupdown has been "Debian's native tool" for several years
> > now. It is one among several available tools, and happens to be the only
> > one with Debian as its upstream; on a wheezy-era sysvinit system that
...
> Further:
> ifupdown has Priority: important and is Recommended by netbase
> while NM has just Priority: optional

I volunteer to take on this package if somebody sponsor me (Andrew?).
Otherwise I'll do the package maintenance within Devuan.

Message #20 received at 786902@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

To: Andrew Shadura <andrewsh@debian.org>, Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com>, 786902@bugs.debian.org

Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#786902: O: ifupdown -- high level tools to configure network interfaces

Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 14:39:18 +0200

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retitle 786902 ITA: ifupdown -- high level tools to configure network
owner 786902 !
thanks

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 05:45:22PM +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote:

> This is that time of the year when I finally need to orphan ifupdown
> package. It's been quite some time already since I first thought about
> this, and I have finally understood I have no intent to maintain this
> package any more. I stopped using it myself about a month ago, and I
> doubt I will really work on improving it any further.

Thank you very much for your work on ifupdown. I'm using it on a lot of
systems.

> In current state ifupdown is probably good enough for what it is used
> for, except a few bugs. For advanced uses, it seems, Python-based
> ifupdown2 may become a good alternative in the future, and some simpler
> things wicd, NM and systemd-network probably do things just well.

The advantage of ifupdown is that it doesn't have a lot of dependencies,
is small, and can be configured with a *simple* configuration file. Yet
it is very flexible and handles many network configurations. I tried
systemd-networkd a few weeks ago, but I don't find it very intuitive.
But maybe that's because I'm used to ifupdown.

I also believe some features that the other solutions have can be
backported to ifupdown. For example, I see no reason why ifupdown could
not be made to support selecting interfaces based on MAC address or
other criteria instead of the interface name. So I will work on that.

> So if anyone wants to take this package over and maintain it, go
> ahead :) If that doesn't happen soon, I will probably still do some QA
> uploads from time to time, but I can't promise anything really.

I'll adopt it, but I'm open to collaboration with you and Svante.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
      Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

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Message #29 received at 786902-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

To: 786902-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#786902: fixed in ifupdown 0.7.54

Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 22:21:03 +0000

Source: ifupdown
Source-Version: 0.7.54

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
ifupdown, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 786902@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org> (supplier of updated ifupdown package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 23:39:41 +0200
Source: ifupdown
Binary: ifupdown
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 0.7.54
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>
Changed-By: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>
Description:
 ifupdown   - high level tools to configure network interfaces
Closes: 681872 717266 741454 744167 779786 784611 786902
Changes:
 ifupdown (0.7.54) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Guus Sliepen ]
   * Adopting this package from Andrew Shadura. Closes: #786902
   * Converted the Mercurial repository to Git.
   * Clean up the source code (indentation, whitespace, remove some
     duplication, fix some warnings from cppcheck, clang, use C99, use const
     and static where possible, remove unused/obsolete files).
   * Prevent recursion using source and source-dir statements. Closes: #779786
   * Create /run/network if it doesn't exist. Closes: #681872
   * Bump Standards-Version.
   * Use [$arch-any] statements in debian/control for architecture-dependent
     Depends instead of conditionally calling dh_gencontrol from debian/rules.
   * Add -Wno-unused-parameters to CFLAGS in debian/rules.
   * Update debian/copyright and convert it to DEP-5 format.
   * Remove debian/README and debian/TODO, which are no longer relevant.
   * Update timestamp in manpages. Closes: #717266
   * Do not attempt to kill udhcpc if there is no pidfile. Closes: #744167
   * Add udev rule to allow rfkill for group netdev. Closes: #741454
 .
   [ Yuriy Vostrikov ]
   * When using dhcpcd, pass the metric option. Closes: #784611
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