On Sat, 13 May 2023 20:29:11 +0200 <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 01:01:27PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > On Sat, May 13, 2023, 5:23 AM Jeremy Ardley <jer...@ardley.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 13/5/23 18:17, Nicolas George wrote: > > > > This is your interpretation, not an official stance. It might as well be > > > > that they considered polluting the completion namespace of users with a > > > > command they rarely need was less convenient. > > > > > > The actual reason is they have deprecated it in favour of the ip command > > > but left it available for now with a bit of searching. > > > > > > > Ifconfig has been deprecated in Debian for some years. > > It is *not* deprecated. It is just optional, not essential. As is the > Gnu C compiler or Lua or... you name it. If you need it, you install > it. It is in stable (version 1.60), coming in testing (v 2.10) and is > in unstable. It is not going away, folks!
We can quibble about the term "deprecated," but the official Debian Reference Manual repeatedly calls it "obsolete": https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html -- Celejar
