Control: tags -1 = wontfix Hello Evgenii Smirnov,
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 07:19:27PM +0100, Evgenii Smirnov wrote: > Package: iproute2 > Version: 4.3.0-1ubuntu3.16.04.2 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > ip link tool has an ability to use external shared libraries for > defining custom device kinds which will be managed by the tool. > To build such libraries three header files are needed. It would > be great to provide this headers in a dev package. There used to be an iproute-dev package, which was removed by me. There where no legitimate users, only abusers of this internal code which is not a proper library to export as is for external consumption. Also the internal libnetlink is as far as I know being phased out even for internal iproute2 usage in favour of libmnl. The existing users where ported over to libmnl where needed when the iproute-dev package was removed. I would suggest you base your own code around libmnl where possible and if you're really modifying the iproute2 internals, then do that by patching the iproute2 source (via debian/patches/) and rebuild the package from source. If libnetlink is not yet fully phased out in upstream iproute2 I'm convinced your help in porting it over to libmnl is welcome as well! :) I'm thus tagging this bug report as wontfix based on the historical information and suggesting that it should be closed (but both of these are really up to the new maintainers to decide on). Regards, Andreas Henriksson
