On Fri, 2017-12-29 at 23:52 +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > 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
Hi, Personally I agree with your point of view - I wouldn't really be too keen to maintain downstream some internal headers for public usage - having to counter API breakages and so on. If upstream committed to publish a public header, with all the guarantees this would entail, that would change things - but I don't see that happening. If Alex also agrees then we'll close this. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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