On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 19:27 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Your mail is missing some things: > > To: 786...@bugs.debian.org > Control: retitle -1 ITA: ifupdown -- high level tools to configure > network interfaces > Control: owner -1 !
If you mean it has been orphaned, it will work for while yet even if it
is unmaintained. As the bug notes:
In current state ifupdown is probably good enough for what it is
used for
That's an understatement. It's plugin based architecture that makes it
such a flexible tool for sysadmin's has also meant it's been able to
adapt to newer technology for 15 years now. So there is no rush.
I agree there is room for improvement. Systemd-networkd's pattern
matching make ifupdown's mapping look like a hack, it lacks any
dependency processing, I suspect the shell script's architecture
responsible for it's flexibility is also responsible for it's bugs and
it only provides tools for address assignment - other tasks like
firewalls and traffic control aren't there.
But they aren't there in the proposed replacements either, so we are a
long way from having a new solution. Fortunately we have do time.
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