Hi, On Thu, 11 Jul 2024, at 08:41, Simon Richter wrote: >> I understand your fears about the uncertainty of future developments. > > No, you don't. > > What I'm concerned about is not packages as a whole being discontinued. > This is highly unlikely for systemd, and for simpler packages, it is not > a problem as long as we are able to react to security issues. > > My concern is *interfaces* and *features* being discontinued in new > versions, requiring adaptation on our end before we can update a package > that we want to upgrade. Specifically I'm looking at the interface for > passing in system-wide network configuration, because that interface > will likely stand in the way of future systemd-networkd development:
In all fairness, keeping in mind that I’ve maintained ifupdown for quite some time, its interface needed improvement for very very long time, and nothing we should be preserving unmodified forever. From what I’ve seen about ifupdown-ng, they really improved the sad state of things. I would be more than happy if ifupdown-ng replaced our old implementation. (But you are welcome to also ask Anthony what he thinks about it.) (My first and last message in this thread.) -- Cheers, Andrej
