On 10.07.24 22:14, Simon Richter wrote:
It is supported *now*, but the roadmap is unclear -- that support could be discontinued at any moment, and it would not be the first time a feature Debian relied on was removed.
I don't think that the systemd people have *any* intention to substantially change their configuration file structure or whatnot. If they ever do, we should (and will!) raise our concerns then.
Right now we have other problems that are way more important IMHO, given 210 open bugs on ifupdown. (#81219 <mailto:81...@bugs.debian.org> is from January 2001.)
Debian-specific not-quite-Secret Sauce is fine when it adds value compared to other distributions (and doesn't require a disproportionate amount of Debian-specific knowledge). In this case however I'd argue that in the vast majority of cases, ifupdown does not add value.
Not any more. The ecosystem has changed significantly in the last quarter century.
Instead we have a maintenance burden — one which isn't exactly lightened by the fact that there are four implementations of ifupdown that do more or less the same thing. (In case you're wondering: #4 is busybox.)
-- -- regards -- -- Matthias Urlichs
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