Re: pro-active removals

2015-10-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > As for ifconfig, people rely on the vconfig command. If I type > "configure vlan linux", on the 10 first results, I have 5 of them > (including the first one) that explain how to use vconfig. One of them > is for "Google Fiber". Another one

Re: Bug#501402: pro-active removals

2015-09-17 Thread ard
Hi, On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 12:23:02PM +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: > Two years ago I wrote a replacement for vconfig [1], which I thought > would replace it in Debian, but that still hasn't happened. > > [1] https://bitbucket.org/andrew_shadura/fake-vconfig/src Can I include that as is? Ah, yes

Re: pro-active removals

2015-09-17 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 17 septembre 2015 10:55 +0200, Andreas Henriksson  : >> Why? The vlan package is not needed since at least Wheezy to configure >> VLANs on devices since the program "ip" can do everything the same or >> even better. >> >> Also ifupdown was changed to be able to configure VLANs using "ip" >> d

Re: pro-active removals (was: Re: suggestion to add package vlan to default instalation DVD)

2015-09-17 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:55:58AM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: this, I think it would be a *service* to our users if we removed this (and many other packages in similar situation) from the archive so that we don't fool users into using (or wasting time even looking at) long-deprecated softwa

pro-active removals (was: Re: suggestion to add package vlan to default instalation DVD)

2015-09-17 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello all. On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 09:10:15PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: [...] > Why? The vlan package is not needed since at least Wheezy to configure > VLANs on devices since the program "ip" can do everything the same or > even better. > > Also ifupdown was changed to be able to configure VLAN