| From: |
| md-AT-Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) |
| To: |
| debian-devel-AT-lists.debian.org |
| Subject: |
| Can we kill net-tools, please? |
| Date: |
| Mon, 26 Dec 2016 14:50:50 +0100 |
| Message-ID: |
| <20161226135050.qp3gdstcadvlffoa@bongo.bofh.it> |
ifconfig, route, etc...
Recently the net-tools maintainer has forked the abandoned net-tools
code base and started developing it again, after 15 years of stasis.
As a design choice he has changed the output of most commands, hence
breaking many scripts parsing their output.
With this post I want to encourage fellow maintainers to stop depending
on net-tools, which is obsolete software and has been replaced long ago
by iproute.
Can we stop shipping two network configuration CLI tools in the default
install?
net-tools has long been deprecated and should not have important
priority, for a start.
--
ciao,
Marco
