On 2023-05-13 23:00:23 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 13 May 2023 at 18:18:57 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On 5/13/23 15:40, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 08:29:11PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 01:01:27PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > > > Ifconfig has been deprecated in Debian for some years. > > > > > > > > It is *not* deprecated. It is just optional, not essential. > > > > > > I don't know what Debian's official stance is, but if you do web searches > > > for "Linux ifconfig deprecated", you find MANY results. > > > > > > <https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/ifconfig-vs-ip>: > > > The ip command is the future of network config commands. ifconfig > > > has been officially deprecated for the ip suite, so while many of > > > us are still using the old ways, it is time to put those habits to > > > rest and move on with the world. > > > > While you are correct, Greg, the lack of documentation to help with > > that transition is staggering. They just thru it on the table and > > didn't even say use this instead. > > From the way you have quoted, I don't know whether you're complaining > specifically about redhat, but as far as Debian is concerned, it was > well documented in the Release Notes for stretch: > > 5.1.3. Noteworthy obsolete packages > > The following is a list of known and noteworthy obsolete packages > (see Section 4.8, “Obsolete packages” for a description). > > The list of obsolete packages includes: > > [ … ] > > * The net-tools package is being deprecated in favor of > iproute2. See Section 5.3.9, “net-tools will be deprecated in > favor of iproute2” or the Debian reference manual (https:// > www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05# > _the_low_level_network_configuration) for more information. > > [ … ] > > 5.3.9. net-tools will be deprecated in favor of iproute2 > > The net-tools package is no longer part of new installations by > default, since its priority has been lowered from important to > optional. [...]
Under Debian/unstable, i.e. more much recent than stretch: zira:~> dpkg -s net-tools Package: net-tools Status: install ok installed Priority: important [...] This is still priority important! -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
