On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 03:04:18PM +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > > Looking at the debdiff, I notice that upstream considers this package > > as deprecated and recommends using the 'bridge' command from iproute2. > > Is there any plan to migrate bridge-utils-interfaces to use this? > > Well, kind of, I mean, on some of the bugs, at least on #868220, we've > have talked about this. And given that upstream has been inactive for > years... we have talked about getting the bridge setup scripts on > ifupdown and leave bridge-utils with just the brctl tool. > > I'm crossposting and adding Guus to the mail to see if we can agree on > something here, I don't think it is now the time to do it, it would be > for post Bullseye, but I don't have any problem in rewriting the > scripts to use just iproute2 and maintain those scripts under ifupdown > so that Guus didn't have to take care of more stuff.
Moving to the bridge command from iproute2 soon would be best, however
whether the bridge-utils package does it or ifupdown doesn't really
matter. At this point, I think it can still be done in bridge-utils,
migrating functionality between packages during the soft-freeze is
probably a no-go.
I did something similar in the past for the ifenslave package: it used
to be a compiled C program from the kernel sources that was shipped, at
some point I replaced it with a shell script that just echoed the right
values into the /sys/class/net/ hierarchy. The brctl command is very
simple, and the same thing could be done there. The hardest part would
be to emulate the output of `brctl show`. For the if-*.d scripts this is
not an issue of course.
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Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
Guus Sliepen <g...@debian.org>
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