Package: ifupdown Version: 0.8.35 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
I'm not sure if this bug should be filed against ifupdown or ifupdown2. This issue only seems to affect current versions of these packages in buster, I haven't encountered this in stretch. When installing ifupdown2, apt will remove ifupdown before proceeding with installation of ifupdown2 as the two cannot co-exist on the same system. The problem seems to be that, following removal of ifupdown, the networking service is stopped, and the host loses all connectivity. This behaviour is potentially debilitating, especially when the task is performed via SSH or via configuration management software which depends on the host being reachable over the network to operate. When issuing the command to install ifupdown2 over SSH the issue can be quite easily worked around by restarting the networking service immediately after ifupdown2 is installed: apt-get install ifupdown2 && systemctl restart networking However, there seems to be no simple solution when using configuration management (like ansible) to install ifupdown2. The relevant tasks will hang forever upon ifupdown2 installation. Is this deliberate? Any chance you can reconsider the actions taken upon uninstallation of ifupdown? Thank you. Best regards, George Diamantopoulos -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages ifupdown depends on: ii adduser 3.118 ii iproute2 4.20.0-2 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii lsb-base 10.2019031300 Versions of packages ifupdown recommends: ii isc-dhcp-client [dhcp-client] 4.4.1-2 Versions of packages ifupdown suggests: pn ppp <none> pn rdnssd <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/default/networking changed [not included] /etc/init.d/networking changed [not included]
