severity 798329 wishlist tags 798329 wontfix close 798329 thanks On 08/09/15 12:34, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> I need reliable, consistent, parsable output across all Debian versions > (and some derivates). There is no software that currently offers that promise. I understand it is annoying, and myself have reported a bug to iproute2 (#726417) for a similar situation, but the maintainer also did not want to diverge from upstream, so I had to live with that. >> direcly parsing files in /proc/net > > Excuse me, but WTF? > > The standard Unix interface for things is stdout of other commands, > as in, filters and pipes. ifconfig is *the* standard utility to get > information about interfaces. Sorry, but ifconfig output is not standarised by policy or any other doc. In fact, it varies wildly in its many implementations. It has been deprecated as a means of talking with the network stack in Linux since iproute exists, which is a Long Time Ago. Also, it is not breaking other Debian packages, nor it is malfunctioning, so severity can't be more than wishlist. Finally, I have no intentions on maintaining a fork of net-tools to support the 14 years old output format of ifconfig, so I am closing this as wontfix. -- Martín Ferrari (Tincho)