Package: bridge-utils Version: 1.5-6 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
After installing bridge-utils, and configuring two bridges in /etc/network/interfaces, the network interfaces did not come up after a reboot. The bridges existed, but the physical devices were still in 'down' state. The problem turned out to be that net-tools was not installed because it is just a suggested dependency instead of a recommended dependency. Personally, I think configuring one or more bridges in /etc/network/interfaces would be a common use-case, especially since /etc/network/interfaces is the standard method of configuring network interfaces, therefore net-tools should be a recommended dependency, instead of a suggested dependency. Ifupdown could still be a suggested dependency, as it will have been installed via another dependency chain if the user wants/needs it. Regardless of whether net-tools should be a recommendation or a suggestion, the current situation may cause problems during upgrades: the recent demotion of net-tools from a 'depends' to a 'suggests' may cause net-tools to be removed from a system (as it is no longer required or recommended) during an upgrade (e.g. this can happen when upgrading from squeeze to wheezy !). If a system sets up its bridges in /etc/network/interfaces, this will result in a non-functional network after that system is rebooted the next time. Kind regards, and thanks for your work on debian ! Rogier. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages bridge-utils depends on: ii libc6 2.13-37 bridge-utils recommends no packages. Versions of packages bridge-utils suggests: ii ifupdown 0.7.5 ii net-tools 1.60-24.2 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
